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The 41 pages that link to Epicureanism, each with the reason it gives.

• Hellenistic periodRelated: Its communities offered a prominent ethical response to life in the Hellenistic world.

• Carpe diemRelated: Its account of measured pleasure helps distinguish carpe diem from mere indulgence.

• DemocritusRelated: It transformed atomism into a broader account of how to live without fearing the gods or death.

• LucretiusRelated: The poem’s physics serves its ethical aim of freeing people from fear.

• Pierre GassendiRelated: Gassendi adapted Epicurean atomism while rejecting its atheism and moral hedonism.

• Normative ethicsRelated: It offers an influential account of welfare and the good life.

• ChanceRelated: Epicurean atomism introduced a deviation that allowed room for chance and agency.

• HerculaneumRelated: The Villa of the Papyri’s library preserves writings associated with this school.

• History of atomic theoryRelated: Epicurean thinkers preserved and developed atomism after its Greek beginnings.

• Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamRelated: Its emphasis on pleasure and freedom from anxiety resembles one interpretation of the verses.

• Cyrano de BergeracRelated: Atomist ideas appear in the speculative cosmology associated with Cyrano's fiction.

• History of atheismRelated: Epicurus argued that gods, if they exist, do not govern human affairs.

• Michel OnfrayRelated: Onfray presents Epicurus as a source for his materialist and pleasure-centered ethics.

• Théophile de ViauRelated: Epicurean ideas illuminate the materialist and pleasure-seeking associations attached to libertine writing.