EPICURUS AND HIS GODS (Epicure et ses Dieux) by A. J. FESTUGIERE, o.P. Directeur d’études 3 I’ficole des Hautes Btudes Translated by C. W. CHILTON Lecturer in Classics at Hull University HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 19560 1 CONTENTS PREFACE THE STATE OF RELIGION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE ‘THE LIFE OF EPICURUS EPICUREAN FRIENDSHIP ‘THE RELIGION OF EPICURUS EPICURUS AND THE ASTRAL RELIGION BIBLIOGRAPHY 19 27 st 73 94‘TRANSLATOR'S NOTE Tue original edition of this book was published in Paris in 1946. This translation incorporates many alterations and addi- tions made by the author. Some concern the text but most are to be found in the notes and bibliography and are intended to take account of work published since 1946. While this version was being prepared the latest addition to the list appeared — Epicurus and his PI ily by N. W. DeWitt (University of Minnesota Press, 1954). Fr. Festugitre wishes me to acknowledge his indcbtedness to this book for some altera~ tions in the details of Epicurus’ early life which have been made in Chapter 1. I am responsible for the index and list of abbreviations. C. W. Caron