Metrodorus the Epicurean on Autarchy and Self-Rule: Revision history

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21 June 2025

  • curprev 10:3210:32, 21 June 2025Mbauwens talk contribs 5,732 bytes +5,732 Created page with "=Discussion= Hiram Crespo: "Metrodorus of Lampsacus, the co-founder of the Epicurean lineage of philosophy, was a preacher of autarchy—self-sufficiency and self-governance—and Philodemus of Gadara frequently cited him and appealed to his authority in this regard. Metrodorus wrote a book titled That our happiness depends more on ourselves than on external things. There, he said: What is the good of the soul, if not the balanced condition of the flesh and the well-f..."