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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Philodemus Project Home Page
Herculaneum is at the foot of the mountain, toward the left.
The Philodemus Project is an international effort which aims, supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the generous contributions of individuals and participating universities, to reconstruct new texts of Philodemus' works on Poetics, Rhetoric, and Music.
Such meetings were held in the villas of prominent Romans, and Philodemus will certainly have participated in some of them; they may also have been held in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/classics/Philodemus/philhome.htm   (872 words)

  
 Epicurean Resources
Poems by the Epicurean Philodemus of Gadara (c.
Recovery of some of the texts has been complicated by the poor condition of the rolls, awaiting the advent of modern technology and some clever deductions about how to put the papyri fragments back together for the present translations to proceed.
Another page about the Philodemus Project, this one maintained by the Classics Department at the Austin campus of the University of Texas.
www.epicurus.net /en/resources.html   (464 words)

  
  Zeno of Sidon
Now Philodemus studied under Zeno in Athens and then moved to Rome in 75 BC to work for the Roman aristocrat Lucius Calpurnius Piso.
Philodemus then went to live in Lucius's villa at Herculaneum, near Naples, taking with him his considerable library of papyri.
Although Zeno's Epicurean philosophy of the desire for pleasure seems the direct opposite of the Stoic's ethic of duty, the consequences on how they lived their lives were quite similar.
www.phoenicia.org /zeno.html   (1269 words)

  
 University of Chicago Department of Classics
Reprinted in Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace, ed.
In Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace, ed.
Forthcoming in Philodemus and the New Testament World, edited by John T. Fitzgerald, Glenn Holland, and Dirk Obbink.
humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/classics/people/asmiscv.htm   (472 words)

  
 Epicureanism - ReligionFacts
The works of Philodemus, a 1st-century BC Epicurean, discovered at Herculaneum, and a large 2nd-century inscription in Lycia, have further added to our knowledge of Epicurus and his teaching.
Epicurus taught a materialistic view of the universe: the whole of nature consists of matter and space.
A similar formula is found in Philodemus (1st cent.
www.religionfacts.com /a-z-religion-index/epicureanism.htm   (1217 words)

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