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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 ''τελος'' of epicureanism
 
:this was achieved by rational calculus συμμετρησις, a selection (αιρεσις) an aversions (φυγη)are to be evaluated by the pleasure it gives (129),<ref>Roskam, Geert Live unnoticed Λαθε Βιωσασ On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean Doctrine (9004161716)</ref>
 
:ataraxia αταραζια
 
:live unobtrusively λαθε βιωσας
 
 
 
Prominent Roman Epicureans:
 
 
* [[Titus Lucretius Carus]]
 
 
Greek teachers in Italy:
 
:Philodemus
 
:Siro
 
:M. Pompilius Andronicus
 
 
Epicurean vocabulary:
 
:hortulus                 
 
:contubernium
 
:contubernales
 
:quies
 
:voluptas
 
==References==
 
<references/>
 
p.35-39
 
 
==External links==
 
 
* [http://www.epicurus.net/ Epicurus & Epicurean Philosophy]
 
 
[[Category:Philosophy]]
 

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