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The playwright Menander served in the same age-class of the ephebes as Epicurus.
After pursuing philosophical education in several Greek cities he taught in two cities in Asia Minor, and formed one of the most important Philosophy schools of the period in Athens, named The Garden.
Epicurus' teachings represented a departure from the other major Greek thinkers of his period, and before.
He admitted women and slaves into his school, emphasized the senses in his epistemology, and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time.
He is best known for advocating the pursuit of or indulgence in pleasure with a guilt-free attitude as a necessary moral good. There are connections to the philosophies of Ayn Rand and Osho ( Bhagavan Rajneesh ) as well as Zen.
Elements of Epicurean philosophy have resonated and resurfaced in various diverse thinkers and movements throughout Western intellectual history.
Epicurus discussed a human being's natural right to "life, liberty, and safety."
This was later picked up by the democratic thinkers of the French revolution, and others, like John Locke, who wrote that people had a right to "life, liberty, and property."
This triad was carried forward into the American freedom movement and Declaration of Independence, by American founding father, Thomas Jefferson, as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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