Ramon TORNÉ I TEIXIDÓ

Original title: Epicur i la seva invitació a la Saviesa

Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World

Keywords: Catalan translation, Epicurus, Letter to Meneceus, soul, wisdom.

The author presents the Letter to Meneceus underlining its human aspects, as being first of all an invitation to a thoughtful and calm life, the way of life to understand more and more which is the meaning of life itself. In a second part of its article a translation into Catalan of this letter is provided.