Carlo Diano
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LOCATION: Padua, Italy
Professor of Greek Literature, University of Padua, Italy. Author of Lettre di Epicuro e dei suoi; editor of Epicuri Ethica.
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Epicureanism, in a strict sense, the philosophy taught by Epicurus (341–270 bce). In a broad sense, it is a system of ethics embracing every conception or form of life that can be traced to the principles of his philosophy. In ancient polemics, as often since, the term was employed with an even…
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