Philosopher · Classical antiquity · Greece

Epicurus

341–270 BC

Greek philosopher born on Samos who founded the Garden school at Athens in 306 BC. He taught that pleasure, understood as the absence of pain and disturbance, is the goal of life. He lived 341 to 270 BC, and his school lasted centuries.

Facts

Born: 341 BC, Samos, Greece.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Epicurus
Died: 270 BC, Athens.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Epicurus
School: Epicureanism, taught in the Garden at Athens.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Epicurus
Known for: Atomist physics taken from Democritus, and an ethics of measured pleasure. Lucretius carried the doctrine to Rome in verse.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Epicurus

Images

Marble bust of Epicurus, British Museum (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Connected

CountryGreece1830–PhilosopherDemocritusc. 460–c. 370 BC

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