brotherhood than a fee-taking school. It carried on for five generations down
to around 330, including a branch at its mother city—Abdera being a colony—
Teos, off the Ionian coast. Nausiphanes, teaching at Teos, connected Epicurus
to this school.
Just after 400 b.c.e., the intellectual community discovered the school as
an institutional structure that can be deliberately created. There was a huge
outpouring of foundations, leading to a crisis in the attention space because it
overflowed the limits of the law of small numbers. The schools were modeled,
in part, on the Pythagoreans, as a religious fraternity living in common on
FIGURE 3.3. ORGANIZED SCHOOLS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY,
600 B.C.E.–100 C.E.Partitioning Attention Space: Ancient Greece^ •^91