Epicurus was born in 341 BCE and was a pupil of the Platonist Pamphilus of Samos, and the Democritean philosopher Nausiphanes of Teos. He began to teach when he was thirty-two, first in Mitylene on Lesbos and then in Lampsacus on the nearby mainland. In 306 BCE he moved to Athens with his loyal disciples; he purchased a property with a garden and established his school there. The Garden, as the school came to be known, soon became a popular choice among Athenian youth, alongside the Academy of Plato and the Lyceum of Aristotle. Epicurus died in Athens in 270 BCE, but his philosophy lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epicurus was born in 341 BCE and was a pupil of the Platonist Pamphilus of Samos, and the Democritean philosopher Nausiphanes of Teos. He began to teach when he was thirty-two, first in Mitylene on Lesbos and then in Lampsacus on the nearby mainland. In 306 BCE he moved to Athens with his loyal disciples; he purchased a property with a garden and established his school there. The Garden, as the school came to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[1126],"class_list":["post-7373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","tag-ancient-greek-philosophy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n