Philo Home the Department Why Philosophy? Faculty Books by Faculty Philo Blogs For Students Projects Contact Us Philo Web Graduate Center Lehman Philosopher's Spotlight: Epicurus (Greek Hellenistic philosopher, 341–271 B.C.). Spotlight Quote: "Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."