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History
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Legacy
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Overview
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Philosophy
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Overview
- Philosophy
- BCE
- Epicurus
- Ancient Greek philosopher
- Atomist
- Materialist
- Democritus
- Religious skepticism
- Platonism
- Stoicism
- Hedonism
- Colloquially
- Cyrenaic
- Aristippus
- Ataraxia
- Diogenes Laertius
- Principal Doctrines
- Clement of Alexandria
- Plutarch
- Cicero
- Lucius Manlius Torquatus
- Colotes
- De rerum natura
- Lucretius
- Villa of the Papyri
- Herculaneum
- Philodemus
- Zeno of Sidon
- Diogenes of Oenoanda
- Oenoanda
History
- Samos
- Teos
- Athens
- Colophon Colophon (city)
- Mytilene
- Lesbos
- Lampsacus
- Hermarchus
- Idomeneus Idomeneus of Lampsacus
- Polyaenus Polyaenus of Lampsacus
- Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitanism
- Eikas
- Vegetarians
- Peripateticism
- Pyrrhonism
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Carbonized scrolls Herculaneum papyri
- Julius Caesar
- Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 58 BC)
- Lucian of Samosata
- Roman Ancient Rome
- Amafinius
- Phaedrus Phaedrus (Athenian)
- Rome
- Titus Lucretius Carus
- De Rerum Natura
- Philodemus of Gadara
- Diogenes Laërtius
- Christianity
Philosophy
- The historian Herodotus
- Atomic theory Democritean theory of atoms
- Empirical Empiricism
- Epistemology
- Senses
- Of death Death anxiety
Legacy
- Lactantius
- Problem of evil
- Trilemma
- Skeptics Philosophical skepticism
- Atheist
- Reinhold F. Glei
- Theodicy
- Pyrrhonist
- Sextus Empiricus
- Epikoros
- Mishnah
- World to come
- Rabbinic literature
- Greek Greeks
- Dante Alighieri
- Divine Comedy
- Heretics
- Sixth circle of hell Inferno (Dante)
- Francis Bacon
- Capons Capon
- Academic Sceptic Academic skepticism
- Arcesilaus
- Eunuchs Eunuch
- Gassendi Pierre Gassendi
- Walter Charleton
- Cambridge Platonists
- Thomas Jefferson
- François Bernier
- Saint-Évremond
- Ninon de l'Enclos
Sources
- Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- Hicks, Robert Drew Robert Drew Hicks
- Long, A.A A. A. Long
- Sedley, D.N. David Sedley
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Schild, Detlev Detlev Schild
- Furley, David J. David J. Furley
- OCLC OCLC (identifier)
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Nodes146
Edges145
Triples139
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013699
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Epicureanism
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related to history · 54
Epicureanism → After, Although Epicurus, At, Athenian, Athens, BCE, CE, Colophon, Colotes, Community, Deciphered, Democritus, Diogenes, Eikas, Epicurean School, Epicureans, Epicurus, Garden, Hellenistic, Hellenistic Epicurean
related to Secondary · 28
Epicureanism → Ancient Philosophy, Annas, Augustine, California Press, Catherine, David, From Aristotle, Giovanni, Happiness, Hellenistic Age, History, ISBN, Julia, OCLC, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Oxford University PressFurley, Philosophy, Reale, Routledge History
related to Modern revival · 12
Epicureanism → Attacks, Cambridge Platonists, Christians, English, Epicurean, French Franciscan, Gassendi, In, Pierre Gassendi, Shortly, Thomas Jefferson, Walter Charleton
related to Ethics · 11
Epicureanism → Additionally, Along, Epicurus, Further, He, Hence, Principal Doctrine, Since, Stoicism, The Epicurean, Unlike
related to Middle Ages and Renaissance · 6
Epicureanism → Comedy, Epicureans, Epicurus, Francis Bacon, In, In Dante Alighieri's Divine
related to Misconceptions · 6
Epicureanism → Because Epicureanism, Epicurean, Epicurus, He, In, This
related to Similarities with eastern philosophies · 4
Epicureanism → Buddhism, Charvaka, Jainism, Some
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epicurus epicurean one pleasure epicureans pain would also atoms desires philosophy pleasures gods fear mind life things natural could philosopher
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Clement of Alexandria | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| Plutarch | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| and Cicero | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| and later disciples who defended his views such as a speech of Lucius Manlius Torquatus defending Epicurean ethics | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| Gaius Velleius's speech defending the Epicurean conception of the gods in the works of Cicero | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| along with Colotes | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| who Plutarch responds to in his writings | instance of | There are also independent attestations of his ideas from both early opponents | 0.80 | text |
| Antioch | instance of | and many Epicurean communities were established in places | 0.80 | text |
| Alexandria | instance of | and many Epicurean communities were established in places | 0.80 | text |
| Rhodes | instance of | and many Epicurean communities were established in places | 0.80 | text |
| and Herculaneum | instance of | and many Epicurean communities were established in places | 0.80 | text |
| the lectures of Zeno of Sidon | instance of | along with other Epicurean material | 0.80 | text |
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