What is the Letter to Menoikeus? The Letter to Menoikeus is one of the few surviving complete texts written by the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus ( Ἐπίκουρος) and provides a summary of the ethical teaching of the "master-builder of happiness" himself

One of the goals of this new translation and commentary is to provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the context and an appreciation of the nuanced meaning of the original Greek text as presented by Cyril Bailey in his Epicurus: The Extant Remains, first published in 1926.