Epicurean Wisdom

 I think that Professor Catherine Wilson has a through understanding of Epicurean history and philosophy.  She provides many key insights into how to we might reflect on our lives today, using Epicurean ideas and principles.  Her writing is clear, balanced, and uplifting.  

 How to be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well.  By Catherine Wilson, Ph.D.  New York, Basic Books, 2019.  293 pages, notes.  An excellent book for the lay reader with an inquiring mind ready to consider Epicurean viewpoints on a variety of modern issues.  VSCL. 

Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity  By Catherine Wilson.  Oxford University Press, 2008.  320 pages.  ISBN:  978-0199238811.  A study of Epicurean influences on many of the ideas that pervaded seventeenth and eighteenth century metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and natural and political philosophy.  VSCL. 

Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction   By Catherine Wilson.  Oxford University Press, 2016.  144 pages.  ISBN: 9780199688326.  VSCL.

I have prepared a hypertext document on Epicureanism that includes a bibliography, quotations, links, references, and notes.