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Epicurus

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epicureannoun	One who is devoted to pleasure.
epicureanismnoun	(ethics) The philosophical belief that pleasure is the highest good, particularly as advocated by Epicurus with a focus on mental pleasures and on avoidance of pain (ataraxia) through moderation and common virtue.
epicurismnoun	Synonym of Epicureanism.
epictetusnoun	A Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50 – c. 135).
parmenidesnoun	An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
eleaticnoun	Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
philodemusnoun	Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher and poet
ephialtesnoun	(obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare
cyreniannoun	(historical) A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.
pre-socraticnoun	(historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).
anaximenesnoun	(c. 585 BCE–c. 525 BCE) An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus; the pupil of Anaximander. He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is the air.
aristotlenoun	An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
leucippusnoun	(philosophy) an Ancient Greek philosopher from Miletus, the founder of atomism and the first thinker in western history to consider determinism as a possibility, disciple of Zeno of Elea
heraclitannoun	A follower of Heraclitus, an Ancient Greek philosopher.
euripidesnoun	A Greek tragedian (c. 480–406 B.C.E.); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.
euhemerusnoun	(historical) An ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic philosopher, famed for a lost work proposing most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which became supernatural only through retelling.
xenocratesnoun	(c. 396–314 B.C.E.) An Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and the second leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339 to 314 B.C.E.
periclesnoun	(historical) An Ancient Greek politician.
eupatridesnoun	(historical) The ancient Greek nobility of Attica.
pythagorasnoun	Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.