Long before debates over ‘wokeness’, Epicurus built a philosophy that welcomed slaves, women and outsiders
Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.
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From Homer’s “Odyssey”
In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of S ...