title: From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
author:  A. A. Long 
description: <br />"[T]his survey cannot do justice to the depth of Long's contributions over the decades, either in the form of this stimulating collection of essays, or in the many other ways that he has helped to make Hellenistic philosophy a required subject for every student of classics and philosophy."--Sara Ahbel-Rappe, <em>The Classical Review</em>
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  [Life and Work of Epicurus.](text00000.html#filepos0000000882)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The intention of the philosophy:](text00000.html#filepos0000006311)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Theory of Knowledge:](text00000.html#filepos0000009129)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Physics:](text00000.html#filepos0000011585)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Ethics:](text00000.html#filepos0000019389)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Epicurus - Fragments**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Life and Work of Epicurus.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Epicurus of Samos**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (in classical Greek: Ἐπίκουρος,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Epikouros_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  , "ally, comrade"; 341 B.C., Samos - 271 or 270 B.C., Athens) was a Greek
  philosopher of the Hellenistic period. His thought was very widespread in
  numerous epicurist centers that developed in Poland, Egypt and, from the first
  century on, in Rome, where Lucretius was his greatest promoter.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Epicurus was born on the island of Samos in 341 B.C., but still very young he
  left for Teos, on the coast of Asi