
Act 1 editorial illustration · not a historical record
THE QUESTION IN THIS SCENE
What makes a life go well?
Epicurus develops the school known as the Garden in Athens.
Epicurus — Desire, sufficiency, and friendship
Does treating pleasure as good mean pursuing more of every pleasure?
Same place, another question: Athens
Why this scene is pinned here
The source supports the event-place association, not the truth of the philosophy or a line of influence.
Epicurus
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: Section 2
Open sourceThe Athenian Garden
Diskin Clay · The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, chapter 1
Locator: Athens, 307/306 BCE
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