A collection of content on Epic Swerve related to the philosopher Epicurus, the founder of Epicureanism. A short biography, quotations and more.

While Cicero is an important ancient source on Epicureanism (both De Natura Deorum and De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum contain long treatises on Epicureanism), he is not a sympathetic reporter — in fact “For the Epicurean philosophy Cicero had only disdain throughout most of his life, though his best friend Atticus was an Epicurean. This disdain leads him to seriously misrepresent its teachings…” (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

A collection of epicurean content related to the great Roman poet Lucretius, famous for his poem De Rerum Natura (often translated On the Nature of Things).