Publisher's Synopsis
When Epicurus was alive, the certainties of life were crumbling. It was a period of political instability and private disillusionment in Greece. Perhaps this is whey his "Letter on Happiness" strikes such a cord. His theory was that wealth, politics, food, sex, or anything one might become dependent on, does not necessarily make one happy. What one should concentrate on instead are relationships with other people, and losing one's fear of death.
