Epicurus(341–270 Bce) Epicurus was born on Samos to parents who were Athenian citizens. Evidence about his philosophical debts and development must be sifted from conflicting reports arising out of the agonistic context of ancient Greek...

c. 341-270 B.C. Greek Philosopher Epicurus founded the Epicurean school of philosophy, which sought attainment of happiness through simple living. His importance to science lies in modifying and promulgating Democritean atomism. Epicurus was born at...

(born 341, Samos, Greece—died 270 &BC;, Athens) Greek philosopher. He was author of an ethical philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, and retirement (&see; Epicureanism) and a metaphysics based on atomism. His school in Athens, the Garden,...

341-271 B.C. Greek philosopher who introduced an ethical philosophy based on simple pleasure, friendship, and the avoidance of political activity and public life. He was the founder of schools of philosophy that competed with the Academy of Plato and...

Epicurus (Greek Îπίκουρος) (341 BC, Samos – 270 BC, Athens) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of Epicureanism, a popular school of thought in Hellenistic Philosophy that spanned about 600 years. Of his over 300 written...