The study of power has been a theme that, especially since the second half of the twentieth century, has proliferated from the revisionist interest that put the focus in the modernity and the forms of exercise of power that the State has been able to develop for centuries. In this context, Michel Foucault developed a theory of power that, unlike most, focused the analysis on the individual seeking to establish the limits on the autonomy of the subject in function of the other. In this analysis, the review by the Epicurean school of Greek thought reveals not only influences on the French author, but also a great capacity to re-signify what is proposed to realize an understanding of the present that is solidly based on the knowledge of the past, a past that is always present. In this article we propose a tour of this relationship based on the notion of power over oneself and others.