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do you do you Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to you

with the support of King's College London and the Lever Hume Trust, online at

W.W. history of philosophy dot net. Today's episode will be an interview

about Epicurus and Epicureism with James Warren of Cambridge University.

Hi James.

Hi there.

Thanks for coming on the podcast.

Pleasure. Can you just start by reminding the listeners who Epicureus was and maybe what his primary philosophical views were.

Okay, well, Epicurus is one of the first philosophers of what tends to be called the Hellenistic period.

So in philosophical terms terms that's the period of philosophers

immediately after Aristotle up until the first century BC. But he's there right at the beginning. So we're talking about the end of the

fourth, the beginning of the third century BC. He was born on the island of Samos to Athenian parents, so he was an Athenian citizen.

And he spent some time in Athens in his youth, did quite a bit of traveling and perhaps picked up various

philosophical ideas as he travelled around. But we know that by around 306, 307 BC, he'd settled again in Athens he'd bought himself a plot of land the

garden that we call it and he set up a philosophical school there and attracted various people who would come and spend time and think and talk philosophy that.

Those philosophical ideas that they were talking about were centered on, I suppose, two main claims.

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