Article and Short Video By Don On The Location of The Garden of Epicurus in Athens

Thanks to Don for all the hard work on the article and for presenting a condensed version by video. The article can be downloaded here:

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

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

Don

April 19, 2023 at 11:10 PM

I think this is a really good example of what we'd like to do here. This isn't scholarship for the sake of scholarship, it's scholarship so we an make practical advances in our application of the philosophy of Epicurus. And dispelling the idea that the Epicureans were living like secluded hermits far away from the life of Athens is something that needs to change.

I didn't listen to the voiceover but I recall watching that in the past and coming away thinking that the size of the junkyard was intended to correlate with the size of the garden. If Don is correct as I suspect he is then that's part of the impression that needs to change. Better to get a drone up in the air to show the full area.

More recent discussion with the video and updated discussion of the location of Epicurus' house is here:

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Don Boozer - Where Was The Garden of Epicurus? Discussion

youtube.com/watch?v=qYkkX67TZd8&feature=youtu.be

Cassius

January 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM