21. The dominant philosophical traditions of the Greco-Roman world at the time were Stoicism, Platonism, and Epicureanism . 22. Philonides attempted to convert Antiochus IV Epiphanes to Epicureanism , and later instructed his nephew Demetrius I Soter in philosophy. 23. Epicureanism holds that happiness is the absence of suffering, which is simple to obtain if one has the basic necessities.24. Epicureanism rejects immortality and mysticism; it believes in the soul, but suggests that the soul is as mortal as the body.25. In his recent book titled " The Swerve ", Stephen Greenblatt identified himself as strongly sympathetic to Epicureanism and Lucretius. 26. Within the six major schools of the Cynicism, Epicureanism , Stoicism, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism-the sage was a featured figure. 27. During the pre-Christian Roman Empire, Stoicism was one of the three dominant schools of philosophy, along with Epicureanism and Neoplatonism. 28. An example of one of " those metaphysical subtleties " that Rousseau may have been referring to was the consideration of materialism or Epicureanism . 29. Lorenzo Valla was among the first to extol the virtues of Epicureanism , though with an understanding no greater than that of John of Salisbury. 30. Epicureanism saw the origin of the soul ( considered to consist of only a small number of atoms even in adults ) as simultaneous with conception.
