# Epicurus

- Id: `epicurus`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/epicurus/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `c2a973d687c380f0368908ca5f4226359dc721220d339688bd7ec79ff5e3d73b`

## Summary

Founder of the Garden, Epicurus sought happiness in simplicity, friendship, and freedom from fear.

## Overview

Epicurus died in 270 BCE; later Epicurean authors and polemical reports are unavailable by default.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "341–270 BCE",
    "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
    "distance": "2,295 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "epicureanism",
    "name": "Epicureanism",
    "detail": "Epicureanism",
    "labels": [
        "Epicureanism"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -270,
    "display": "270 BCE",
    "reason": "Epicurus died in 270 BCE; later Epicurean authors and polemical reports are unavailable by default."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 5,
    "passages": 104,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Samos",
        "period": "341 BCE",
        "description": "Birthplace in an Athenian cleruchy.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Colophon",
        "period": "after 323 BCE",
        "description": "Family refuge and early philosophical formation.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Mytilene",
        "period": "c. 311 BCE",
        "description": "Early teaching period.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Lampsacus",
        "period": "c. 310-306 BCE",
        "description": "Teaching and formation of the close friendship circle.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Athens",
        "period": "306-270 BCE",
        "description": "Foundation and life of the Garden school.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/"
    }
]
```