LITERARY ESSAYS

THE LIFE AND POETRY OF HOMER

THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN

HOW A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO HEAR POEMS

ABSTRACT OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN ARISTOPHANES AND MENANDER

THE MALICE OF HERODOTUS



PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS


THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY ACCORDING TO THE
DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS.

PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS.

Epicurus's great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book
with this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other
philosophers it is impossible to live. Now what occurred to me
then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers,
hath been already put into writing by me. But since upon breaking