Epicurus

Family: Greek · Role: philosopher · First appears: Comparison of Lucullus with Cimon

Life events

• Athens posthumously honored Phocion, while Agnonides was executed and his son avenged other accusers.(Phocion · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Phocion Agnonides Demophilus
  • “And now they decreed him a statue of brass, and his bones to be buried honorably at the public charge; and for his accusers, Agnonides they took themselves, and caused him to be put to death.”

Comparison of Lucullus with Cimon

• with Lucullus (Lucullus is contrasted with one inclined to Epicurus.) “did not become the noble Academy, and the follower of Xenocrates, but rather one that inclined to Epicurus.”

Phocion

• enemies with Phocus “Epicurus and Demophilus, who fled from the city for fear, his son met with, and took his revenge upon them”

Also listed in Greek — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.