Epicurus was born to Athenian parents (341 BCE) on the island of Samos in the southeastern Aegean Sea. At age eighteen (323 BCE) he served two years of conscription in Athens and then moved with his family to Colophon (321 BCE) less than 20 miles north of his birthplace. At age thirty (311 BCE), he […]| Twentiers
After his inspection tour of the eastern frontier provinces (see here), Hadrian travelled through the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea port of Trapezus (present-day Trabzon), the northernmost end …| FOLLOWING HADRIAN