Download or read book Epicurean Tradition written by Howard Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Epicureanism has had a long and complex history. This book is the first to chronicle this history, from its beginnings in Greece in the fourth century BC to its role in the development of philosophy and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Divided equally between the classical and post-classical worlds, The Epicurean Tradition is a notable contribution to classical scholarship and to the history of ideas.