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Philodemus: From Gadara to Herculaneum Philodemus: From Gadara to Herculaneum
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The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum
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When and Why It Was Built When and Why It Was Built
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Who Built It, Who Lived in It, and How It Was Furnished Who Built It, Who Lived in It, and How It Was Furnished
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The Greek Library of the Villa The Greek Library of the Villa
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Who Collected and Brought to Italy the Books of Epicurus and the Other Masters of the Garden? Who Collected and Brought to Italy the Books of Epicurus and the Other Masters of the Garden?
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Philodemus’s Works Philodemus’s Works
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The Early Philosophical Activity of the Gadaran: Historiographical, Ethical, Musical, and Rhetorical Writings (c. 75–50 bce) The Early Philosophical Activity of the Gadaran: Historiographical, Ethical, Musical, and Rhetorical Writings (c. 75–50 bce)
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The Mature Works of the Gadaran: On Poems, Writings on Ethics, Theology, Political Ideology, and Gnoseology (c. 50–40 bce) The Mature Works of the Gadaran: On Poems, Writings on Ethics, Theology, Political Ideology, and Gnoseology (c. 50–40 bce)
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Late Acquisitions: Texts by Epicurus, Metrodorus, Colotes, Polystratus, Demetrius Laco, and Philodemus (End of the First Century bce–Beginning of the First Century ce) Late Acquisitions: Texts by Epicurus, Metrodorus, Colotes, Polystratus, Demetrius Laco, and Philodemus (End of the First Century bce–Beginning of the First Century ce)
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When and Why Did the Greek Library of the Villa Stop Expanding? When and Why Did the Greek Library of the Villa Stop Expanding?
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References References
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15 Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri
Get accessMario Capasso is Full Professor of Papyrology and Director of the Centro di Studi Papirologici at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, where he founded and directs the Museo Papirologico. He is co-Director of the Archaeological Mission of the Centro, which has been working in Fayyum (Egypt) since 1993. He is President of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica and has published about 450 papyrological scientific works, including two handbooks on papyrology and one on Herculanean papyrology.
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Published:06 August 2020
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Abstract
The article is divided into three parts: in the first part the most important phases of Philodemus of Gadara’s life are reconstructed through his works and his epigrams: his cultural trip to Alexandria; his educational stay in Athens, where he joined the Epicurean philosophy, by attending Zeno Sidonius’s lectures; his transfer to Rome, where he embarked on the difficult undertaking of popularizing the Philosophy of the Garden; his meeting and his relationship with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, who was his most important patronus; the place where he lived, his presence in the Villa dei Papiri with the group of Augustan intellectuals including Lucius Varius Rufus, Quinctilius Varus, Plotius Tucca, and Vergil, whom Philodemus addressed in certain books of the work On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues, sharing reflections on ethical topics, developed in the important treatise. The second part is devoted to the Villa dei Papiri: when it was built, who lived there, how it was furnished. The third part outlines the contents of the works of Philodemus recovered from papyri in the Villa and it reaches three relevant conclusions: he collected most of the Greek books in the Villa; he was, at least to a certain extent, an original philosophical writer; and he did not address his teaching to a small circle of learned men associated with the Villa.
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