Editing Epicurus (section)

==Works==
Epicurus was an extremely prolific writer.{{sfn|Long|1999|page=240}}{{sfn|Hickson|2014|pages=26–27}}{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}}{{sfn|Barnes|1986|page=371}} According to [[Diogenes Laërtius]], he wrote around 300 treatises on a variety of subjects.{{sfn|Hickson|2014|pages=26–27}}{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}} Although more original writings of Epicurus have survived to the present day than of any other Hellenistic Greek philosopher,{{sfn|Barnes|1986|page=371}} the vast majority of everything he wrote has still been lost,{{sfn|Long|1999|page=240}}{{sfn|Hickson|2014|pages=26–27}}{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}} and most of what is known about Epicurus's teachings come from the writings of his later followers, particularly the Roman poet Lucretius.{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}} The only surviving complete works by Epicurus are three relatively lengthy letters, which are quoted in their entirety in Book X of [[Diogenes Laërtius]]'s ''[[Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]]'', and two groups of quotes: the ''Principal Doctrines'' (Κύριαι Δόξαι), which are likewise preserved through quotation by Diogenes Laërtius, and the ''Vatican Sayings'', preserved in a manuscript from the [[Vatican Library]] that was first discovered in 1888.{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}} In the ''Letter to Herodotus'' and the ''Letter to Pythocles'', Epicurus summarizes his philosophy on nature and, in the ''Letter to Menoeceus'', he summarizes his moral teachings.{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}} Numerous fragments of Epicurus's lost thirty-seven volume treatise ''[[On Nature (Epicurus)|On Nature]]'' have been found among the charred [[Papyri from Herculaneum|papyrus fragments]] at the [[Villa of the Papyri]] at [[Herculaneum]].{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}}{{sfn|Barnes|1986|page=371}} Scholars first began attempting to unravel and decipher these scrolls in 1800, but the efforts are painstaking and are still ongoing.{{sfn|Kenny|2004|page=94}}
According to Diogenes Laertius (10.27-9), the major works of Epicurus include:
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# On Nature, in 37 books
# On Atoms and the Void
# On Love
# Abridgment of the Arguments employed against the Natural Philosophers
# Against the Megarians
# Problems
# Fundamental Propositions (''Kyriai Doxai'')
# On Choice and Avoidance
# On the Chief Good
# On the Criterion (the Canon)
# Chaeridemus, 
# On the Gods
# On Piety
# Hegesianax
# Four essays on Lives
# Essay on Just Dealing
# Neocles
# Essay addressed to Themista
# The Banquet (Symposium)
# Eurylochus
# Essay addressed to Metrodorus
# Essay on Seeing
# Essay on the Angle in an Atom
# Essay on Touch
# Essay on Fate
# Opinions on the Passions
# Treatise addressed to Timocrates
# Prognostics
# Exhortations
# On Images
# On Perceptions
# Aristobulus
# Essay on Music (i.e., on music, poetry, and dance)
# On Justice and the other Virtues
# On Gifts and Gratitude
# Polymedes
# Timocrates (three books)
# Metrodorus (five books)
# Antidorus (two books)
# Opinions about Diseases and Death, addressed to Mithras
# Callistolas
# Essay on Kingly Power
# Anaximenes
# Letters
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