Epicuro y Atenas: la creación de una comunidad identitaria distinta de la pólis

Abstract

This paper intends to demonstrate that Epicurus’ life was influenced by the political facts that Athens went through during the period from 341 to 267 B.C. And also that through the analysis of Epicurus’ critics to the three elements that support the polis , especially the Athenian polis, the paideia, the participation in the political life and the religion of the polis, it tries to prove that the philosopher constituted a different community from the civic one which identity signs where far away from those of the polis.