Philosophy · English
Nietzsche in company
Nietzsche’s prose: Thomas Common · Epicurus: C. D. Yonge
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Nietzsche reads Epicurus.
Read Nietzsche’s account of Epicurus beside the letter itself, then compare it with Nietzsche’s later judgment.
Edition, sources & reuse
The complete Joyful Wisdom, including its verse, in the 1910 English edition; Epicurus’s complete Letter to Menoeceus in C. D. Yonge’s translation. Project Gutenberg 52124 and 57342.
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