Afterlives of the garden. Receptions of Epicurean thought in the early Empire and late antiquity

Preview [Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.]   By the time of Tacitus, Epicureans were (as Syme memorably put it) ‘not numerous or ever obtrusive, but a quiet force for good sense’.[1] This book (which follows the same editors’ Epicurus in Rome: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age) shows just … Continue reading Afterlives of the garden. Receptions of Epicurean thought in the early Empire and late antiquity