Garden of Epicurus

Letter to a friend about the benefits of philosophy.

So we met with a strict but lovely Lady Philosophy. Its clear as the sun, the arguments sounded convincing even to the prison bars and them with doubt and joy, listened to the prisoner – the last Roman Severin Boethius. However, despite the support and the consolation of Philosophy, the wise prisoner was executed, and with his death ended the thousand-year era of ancient philosophy, the era that gave the world the greatest thinkers and imperishable treasures of wisdom.

Well, historical epochs come and go. Still, sad to leave loved we treasure our ghostly philosophical Museum, with the barrels of Diogenes, with branching antlers of the sophists, with Garden of Epicurus, and even with a terrible Plato's androgynes...

That was not so sad to part with the pearls of ancient philosophy from our ghostly collection, let us today with some degree of healthy skepticism to treat us as a respected ancient sages. Mankind because, often, laughing, parting with the past, and even philosophy.

And help us in this great ironist of all times and peoples, the Roman satirist Lucian. He laughed at all the antique philosophy, laughed subtly, ironic and with a deep knowledge of the subject. The fact that Lucian was himself a philosopher, and knew philosophical wisdom firsthand. So often in his satires as the actors present and the ancient sages, and the satirist.

In our Museum has several philosophical and satirical letters to a friend written by Lucian, and where we are talking about familiar ancient philosophers and their teachings.

Take a look in one of these letters...