Bоth schооls of philosophy we reаd for todаy’s clаss – Epicureanism (Lucretius) and Stoicism (Epictetus & Seneca) – originated and developed in Athens in the 4th century B.C.E., in response to the political and cultural turmoil of that time, i.e., Athens’ loss to Sparta in the Peloponnesian war in 400 B.C.E and its eventual defeat and subordination to the Macedonian Empire in 338 B.C.E. Both of these philosophies claim to offer their adherents a form of “ethical salvation” (i.e., happiness/flourishing) in turbulent times. Tell me, very briefly, how each philosophy provides a form of “ethical salvation” (happiness) for its adherents. In other words, how is it that an adherent of each of these schools of philosophy can be “happy” even as it appears that the world is going to hell.