# Teubner issues Hermann Usener’s Epicurea as the fragment corpus Date: 1887 ## The fact In 1887 Teubner at Leipzig issued Usener’s Epicurea, still the fullest fragment collection. [Epicurus](/people/epicurus) did not edit it. Scan copies now circulate via research archives. ## Context Fragments had been scattered in hostile quotations. A numbered corpus made citation possible and also risked treating scraps as a system. Philology is the gain; over-system is a later error. Epicurus is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute. ## Evidence and sources Official edition, museum, archive, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Usener, Epicurea (1887) (https://archive.org/details/epicurea00epicuoft; Internet Archive / Teubner scan). ## Significance A Teubner fragment book is a scholarly access path, not a recovered autograph library. A Teubner fragment book is a scholarly access path, not a recovered autograph library. ## What is established and what is not Established as a dated public record of this instrument. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. ## People - Epicurus: https://factrail.ai/people/epicurus ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://archive.org/details/epicurea00epicuoft - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-usener-epicurea-1887