. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. not embrace. Epicurus was born at Samos in 342, and settled at Athens atabout the age of 35. Here he purchased a garden, where heestablished his philosophical school. He taught that pleasureis the highest good; a tenet, however, which he explained anddignified by showing that it was mental pleasure that he ideas of atheism and sensual degradation with which the nameof Epicurus has been so frequently coupled are founded on igno-rance of his real teaching. But as he denied the immortality ofthe soul, and t


. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. not embrace. Epicurus was born at Samos in 342, and settled at Athens atabout the age of 35. Here he purchased a garden, where heestablished his philosophical school. He taught that pleasureis the highest good; a tenet, however, which he explained anddignified by showing that it was mental pleasure that he ideas of atheism and sensual degradation with which the nameof Epicurus has been so frequently coupled are founded on igno-rance of his real teaching. But as he denied the immortality ofthe soul, and the interference of the gods in human affairs,—thoughhe held their existence,—his tenets were very liable to be abusedby those who had not sufficient elevation of mind to love virtue forits own sake. Zeno was a native of Citium in the island of Cyprus, and settledat Athens about 299. Here he opened a school in the PoacileStoa, or painted porch, whence the name of his sect. He inculcatedtemperance and self-denial, and his practice was in accordance withhis APIZT Aristotle 240 INDEX. ABEOCOMAS. A. Abrocomas, , the, 96, , , league, , , 3, 18. , a Soman province, , , , , Athenian, 85, 89. Adimantus. , 7. jEgaleos, Mt., Xerxes at, , 6. ^Egina described, 55.^Egospotami, battle of, , , , 4. iEschines accuses Demo-sthenes. 232; retires toRhodes, ib.; account ofhis life, 23$. JEschvlus, account of, 23 r. JEtolia, 2. .Etolians reduced, 219. Agamemnon, 5, 7. Agesilaus becomes king jof Sparta, 149 : charac-ter. \b.; his expedition 1against the ; attacks Ph:>roaba- jzns, ib.; routs the Per-sians on the Pactolus,152 ; recalled, ib.; home-ward march, 154; in-vades Boeotia, 163 ; saves :Sparta. 167 ; expedition jto Egypt, 170; death, ib. ; Aeesipolis, 153 ; death, 459. Agis, IX}


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