Seeking information on the Ancient Epicurean communes that were vastly wiped out by early Christians/Catholics and would appreciate anything you can share on the topic. Epicureanism had been the target of a smear campaign and the effects still last to this day as can be seen in the misrepresentation of the very word of Epicurean from dictionary to dictionary despite the conflict such definitions often has to the actual teachings of the Philosopher Epicurus not to mention how Epicurean communes actually functioned.