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NEW UPDATES! Check out our updated "Guide to Getting Started" with helpful tips on beginning your study of Epicurean Philosophy! We now have a "Website Overview" for navigation with clickable links, and an updated "Forum Map Flow Chart" for navigation to key sections of our forum!

SUNDAY WEEKLY ZOOM - 12:30 PM EDT - Book Review: De Rerum Natura by Lucretius -- Read the post for our December 7, 2025 meeting -- or find out how to attend.

 

Featured On Our Logo, Left to Right:

  • Titus Lucretius Carus - Lucretius (c. 99 BC-55 BC) was the author of "On the Nature of Things," the only surviving relatively complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. This image is the only reliable representation of Lucretius' appearance.
  • Frances Wright - Frances Wright (1785 - 1852) was the author of "A Few Days In Athens," a fictional work dedicated to explaining basic aspects of Epicurean Philosophy.
  • Hermarchus - Hermarchus ( c. 325 BC - 250 BC) was a follower of Epicurus and successor to Epicurus as head of the Epicurean School.
  • Epicurus - Epicurus (c. 341 BC - 270 BC) was founder of the Epicurean School of philosophy.
  • Metrodorus - Metrodorus ( 331 BC - 278 BC) was one of the initial followers of Epicurus, and is considered, along with Epicurus and Hermarchus, one of the three key founders of the Epicurean School of philosophy.
  • Plotina - Pompeia Plotina (c. 60 AD - 122 AD) was the wife of the Emperor Trajan and was noted for her intervention with Trajan's successor, Emperor Hadrian, on behalf of the Epicurean School.
  • Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was the third president of the United States who declared in a private letter to a friend that "I too am an Epicurean," and that "I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."


Finding Things At EpicureanFriends.com

Here is a list of suggested search strategies:

  • Website Overview page - clickable links arrranged by cards.
  • Forum Main Page - list of forums and subforums arranged by topic. Threads are posted according to relevant topics. The "Uncategorized subforum" contains threads which do not fall into any existing topic (also contains older "unfiled" threads which will soon be moved).
  • Search Tool - icon is located on the top right of every page. Note that the search box asks you what section of the forum you'd like to search. If you don't know, select "Everywhere."
  • Search By Key Tags - curated to show frequently-searched topics.
  • Full Tag List - an alphabetical list of all tags.