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After the death of Alexander the Great, Perdiccas expelled the Athenian settlers on Samos to Colophon, on the coast of what is now Turkey.

After the completion of his military service, Epicurus joined his family there.

He studied under Nausiphanes, who followed the teachings of Democritus.

In 311 / 310 BC Epicurus taught in Mytilene but caused strife and was forced to leave.

He then founded a school in Lampsacus before returning to Athens in 306 BC.

There he founded The Garden, a school named for the garden he owned that served as the school's meeting place, about halfway between the locations of two other schools of philosophy, the Stoa and the Academy.