Epicureanism
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Epicureanism is a school of philosophy founded upon the teachings of its founder Epicurus It was known, to Rome, from the mid 2nd Century B.C. as a philosophical school and a way of life. It was immenesely popular in Italy during the 1st Century B.C. but by the 2nd Century A.D Stoicism was paramount.
- pleasure was the telos of epicureanism
- ataraxia αταραζια
- live unobtrusively λαθε βιωσας
Prominent Roman Epicureans:
Greek teachers in Italy:
- Philodemus
- Siro
- M. Pompilius Andronicus
Epicurean vocabulary:
- hortulus
- contubernium
- contubernales
- quies
- voluptas
