Written work
Last Will
Διαθήκη Ἐπικούρου
A legal document leaving all his property to Amynomachus and Timocrates of Potamus on condition that the Garden remain at the disposal of Hermarchus and his successors to live and philosophise; it establishes funeral offerings for his parents and brothers, the celebration of his birthday on 10 Gamelion and a gathering on the 20th of each month in memory of himself and Metrodorus; provides for the care and dowry of the children of Metrodorus and Polyaenus, leaves his books to Hermarchus and frees the slaves Mys, Nicias, Lycon and Phaedrium.
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Authorship note
Authentic. Diogenes Laertius copies it verbatim (X 16–21); it is one of the few surviving wills of ancient philosophers, together with those of Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strato and Lyco, also transmitted by Laertius.
Editions and translations
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English
Epicurus
Epicurus: The Extant Remains
The Conscious LibraryEpicurus: The Extant Remains
Clarendon Press (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1926
Translation: Cyril Bailey
Texto griego y traducción inglesa; dominio público en EE. UU. (publicado en 1926), no en la UE hasta 2028 (Bailey murió en 1957).
Epicurus
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book X
The Conscious LibraryLives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book X
Wikisource (trad. de R. D. Hicks, Loeb, 1925), 1925
Translation: R. D. Hicks
Dominio público (Hicks murió en 1929).
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II: Books 6–10 (Loeb Classical Library 185)
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1925
Translation: R. D. Hicks
ISBN 9780674992047
Edición bilingüe griego-inglés; el libro X contiene los textos de Epicuro.
Español
Epicurus
Los diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres, tomo II
The Conscious LibraryLos diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres, tomo II
Imprenta Real (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1792
Translation: José Ortiz y Sanz
Dominio público; incluye el libro X.
Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres
Alianza Editorial, 2013
Translation: Carlos García Gual
ISBN 9788420676975
Traducción completa de Diógenes Laercio; el libro X contiene las cartas, las Máximas y el testamento.
Other works by Epicurus
- Letter to Menoeceus
- Letter to Herodotus
- Letter to Pythocles
- Principal Doctrines (Kyriai Doxai)
- Vatican Sayings
- On Nature · 300
- Letter to Idomeneus (on his last day) · 270
- Letters (fragments)
- On Atoms and Void
- On Love
- Epitome of Objections to the Physicists
- Against the Megarians
- Problems
- On Choice and Avoidance
- On the End
- On the Criterion, or Canon
- Chaeredemus
- On the Gods
- On Piety
- Hegesianax
- On Lives (4 books)
- On Just Dealing
- Neocles, to Themista
- Symposium
- Eurylochus, to Metrodorus
- On Vision
- On the Angle in the Atom
- On Touch
- On Fate
- Opinions on the Feelings, against Timocrates
- Prognostic
- Exhortation (Protrepticus)
- On Images
- On Presentation
- Aristobulus
- On Music
- On Justice and the Other Virtues
- On Gifts and Gratitude
- Polymedes
- Timocrates (3 books)
- Metrodorus (5 books)
- Antidorus (2 books)
- Opinions on Diseases, to Mithres
- Callistolas
- On Kingship
- Anaximenes
- On Rhetoric
- Larger Epitome
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro X (Epicuro: vida, testamento, cartas a Heródoto, Pitocles y Meneceo, Máximas capitales), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library 185, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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