# Epicurus Founder of Epicureanism (341–270 BCE); taught in the Garden at Athens that pleasure — understood as tranquility (*ataraxia*) and absence of pain, not indulgence — is the good, that the gods do not intervene, and that death is nothing to us. > [!info] Stub — created 2026-06-06 as a link target for the Epicureanism/Cynicism traditions. Expand.