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Who succeeded Epicurus as leader of the Garden school?
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Epicureanism
Epicurus, bronze bust from a Greek original, c. 280ā270 bce; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
Epicurus was succeeded as the leader of the Garden school by his first disciple, Hermarchus of Mitylene.12