Epicureanism

Epicurus bought a garden outside Athens and taught there, admitting even slaves and women — near-scandalous among the schools of the day. His "hedonism" is habitually misread as indulgence; he taught the opposite: the fewer the desires, the freer the person; the gods do not meddle; and death never coexists with us ("where death is, we are not"), so the fear of it is groundless. For centuries this philosophy and Stoicism formed the two poles of Hellenistic ethics.

Who belongs to it

Whom it opposed — and who opposed it