Featured Where was the Garden of Epicurus? The Evidence from the Ancient Sources and Archaeology

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While we will probably never know the exact location of Epicurus’s Garden in ancient Athens, we can take a number of educated guesses.

While we will probably never know the exact location of Epicurus’s Garden in ancient Athens, we can take a number of educated guesses. We have two primary sources from which to make these guesses: ancient texts that hint at the location of the Garden and modern archaeological excavations. This paper will present the evidence for several possible - and even probable - locations for the properties where Epicurus lived and taught and where his school existed for several centuries after his death.

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