1. What knowledge does the author of AWP think a physician should have, first and foremost?
2. What is the relationship, according to the author, between the study of the stars and the study of human health?
3. How does the author criticize those people who call the disease 'sacred'?
4. What reasons does the author give against considering the disease sacred?
5. What IS the cause of this disease, if not the gods, according to the author?
6. According to Epicurus, why should we study nature? (see p.5 and 14)
* 7. Epicurus says "Nothing comes into being from what is not." What does this mean, and (more difficult) what is Epicurus's rationale for this claim?*
8. Epicurus says that the only things that exist are bodies and void. What reasons does he give for this assertion?
9. Can find in/ construct from the text an argument that there must be atomic [='uncuttable'] bodies? (see top of 6, bottom of 8)
* 10. What are the properties of the universe, according to Epicurus?*
11. What are the properties of atoms?
12. (Cicero reading) Do the gods control the physical universe (and, thereby, human lives)? Why or why not?