An introduction to Epicurus

I am utterly swamped today, friends, so it occurs to me that this would be the perfect opportunity to let someone else do the talking. I've been wanting to talk about Epicureanism — not in the modern sense of gourmet or hedonistic sensualist, but the original meaning, the teachings of Epicurus. He's not a well-known philosopher anymore; of his more than 300 written works, only a handful survive. Most of what is known about him comes from the writings of others, many of them mangy stoics