Epicurean Materialism in the Hellenistic World (c. 307 BCE–3rd century CE)

1. Epicurus establishes the Garden in Athens

   Jan 1, 306 BCELabels: Epicurus, The Garden, Athens

   • IEP
   • Britannica

2. Epicurus’s letters and “Principal Doctrines” circulate

   Jan 1, 300 BCELabels: Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

   • Britannica
   • Philopedia
   • Cambridge

3. Hermarchus succeeds Epicurus as school head

   Jan 1, 270 BCELabels: Hermarchus, The Garden

   • EpicurusWiki
   • Cambridge Museum

4. Polystratus leads the Garden after Hermarchus

   Jan 1, 250 BCELabels: Polystratus, The Garden

   • Wikipedia
   • Britannica

5. Epicurean teachers face expulsions from Rome

   Jan 1, 154 BCELabels: Rome, Epicureans

   • Wikipedia
   • Gruen via Wiki

6. Zeno of Sidon teaches a late Hellenistic Epicureanism

   Jan 1, 110 BCELabels: Zeno of, Athens

   • Wikipedia
   • Philodemus

7. Lucretius writes “De rerum natura”

   Jan 1, 55 BCELabels: Lucretius, De rerum

   • Britannica
   • DeRerumNatura
   • Lucretius

8. Philodemus brings Epicurean teaching into Roman elite circles

   Jan 1, 50 BCELabels: Philodemus, Roman elites

   • Philodemus
   • Britannica

9. Vesuvius preserves Epicurean papyri at Herculaneum

   Oct 1, 79Labels: Herculaneum, Vesuvius

   • Villa Papyri
   • Philodemus

10. Plutarch writes major polemics against Epicureans

    Jan 1, 100Labels: Plutarch

    • SEP Plutarch
    • OUP Colotes

11. Diogenes of Oenoanda inscribes Epicureanism in public

    Jan 1, 130Labels: Diogenes of, Lycia

    • OUP Handbook
    • Routledge

12. Epicureanism fades as late antique religious culture rises

    Jan 1, 300Labels: Late antiquity, Christian writers

    • Britannica
    • Epicureanism