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Plotinus and Epicurus. Matter, Perception, PleasureAngela Longo, Daniella Patrizia Taormina (ed.),  Cambridge; New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2016.This volume investigates the reasons why Plotinus, a philosopher inspired by Plato, made critical use of Epicurean philosophy. Eminent scholars show that some fundamental Epicurean conceptions pertaining to ethics, physics, epistemology and theology are drawn upon in the Enneads to discuss crucial notions such as pleasure and happiness, providence and fate, matter and the role of sense perception, intuition and intellectual evidence in relation to the process of knowledge acquisition. By focusing on the meaning of these terms in Epicureanism, Plotinus deploys sophisticated methods of comparative analysis and argumentative procedures that ultimately lead him to approach certain aspects of Epicurus' philosophy as a benchmark for his own theories and to accept, reject or discredit the positions of authors of his own day. At the same time, these discussions reveal what aspects of Epicurean philosophy were still perceived to be of vital relevance in the third century AD.(Text by the editors)&#160;ContentsContributorsPrefaceAbbreviationsTransliterationIntroduction - Angela Longo, Daniela Patrizia TaorminaPart I - Historical overviewChapter 1 - The school and texts of Epicurus in the early centuries of the Roman empire - Tiziano DorandiPart II - Common anti-Epicurean arguments in PlotinusChapter 2 - The mention of Epicurus in Plotinus' tr. 33 (Enn. II 9) in the context of the polemics between pagans and Christians in the second to third centuries AD - Angela LongoChapter 3 - Epicureans and Gnostics in tr. 47 (Enn. III 2) 7.29–41 - Manuel MazzettiChapter 4 - ‘Heavy birds’ in tr. 5 (Enn. V 9) 1.8 - Mauricio Pagotto MarsolaChapter 5 - Plotinus, Epicurus and the problem of intellectual evidence - Pierre-Marie MorelChapter 6 - ‘What is known through sense perception is an image’. Plotinus' tr. 32 (Enn. V 5) 1.12–19 - Daniela Patrizia TaorminaPart III - Plotinus' criticism of Epicurean doctrinesChapter 7 - Corporeal matter, indefiniteness and multiplicity - Marco NinciChapter 8 - Plotinus' reception of Epicurean atomism in On Fate, tr. 3 (Enn. III 1) 1–3 - Erik EliassonPart IV - Epicurean elements in PlotinusChapter 9 - Athroa epibolē - Andrei CorneaChapter 10 - Plotinus and Epicurus on pleasure and happiness - Alessandro LinguitiBibliographyIndex locorumIndex of modern authorsIndex of main concepts&#160;Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson, Gerson University of Toronto (lloyd.gerson@utoronto.ca): Version at BMCR home site