Epicurus was born in Samos , an Aegean island close to Turkey , in 341 BC and he died in Athens in 271 BC.
He was a philosopher, founder of one of the major philosophy schools of that time, and his Epicureanism became very famous and people followed it until the very first Christian doctrine opposed it causing it to disappear completely.
Epicurus’s philosophy ranges from physics to ethics and certainly the philosopher produced numerous writings; however, of his production, only three famous epistles and two collections of aphorisms remained till the present day.