Note 24 — Chapter IV · EPICURUS AND LUCRETIUS

Weber, Op. Cit., Pages 136-137. Epicurus was the author of about three hundred writings, according to Diogenes Laertius, but only his Letters, preserved by this historian, and fragments of a work discovered at Herculaneum remain. For the rest we are dependent on the resume presented by Lucretius and the quotations found in Greek authors. As Weber remarks (Page 135), “neither polytheism nor Christianity had any interest in preserving his numerous writings.”