Both of the stoicism and epicureanism want human happiness with out pain
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When Greeks spread throughout the near east they took their gods with them
Stoicism is a school of philosophic thought founded during the Hellenistic civilization time. This particular school of thought, founded by Zeno of Citium, taught that emotions resulted from judgment errors.
The greatest philosopher of all time was Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC to 322 BC). He had so many inputs in many aspects such as logic, history, sciences (physics, geology, metaphysics, biology, psychology), philosophies, Christianity and even women and a lot more.
The Romans adopted and adapted the western Greek alphabet. They adopted some of the Greek gods (Apollo, Asclepius, Castor and Pollux and Cybele, whom they called Magna Mater) and linked their gods to the Greek ones. Their scientific ideas came from the Greeks. They adopted Greek medicine. They adopted Greek sports. Their literature was based on the Greek tragedies and comedies. Their elite men studied the two main Greek school of philosophy of the time: stoicism and Epicureanism. From the late 1st century BC they adopted Greek sculpture The adopted the Greek orders (styles) to make columns (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and modelled their temples on the Greek ones. However, for the rest, Roman architecture went way beyond the techniques of the Greeks. The Romans effected what historians have called the Roman architectural revolution.
In Greek mythology, Narcissus was the boy who fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water.