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Philodemus was an Epicurean philosopher and poet, was born at Gadara in Coele-Syria early in the 1st century BCE, and settled around Rome in the time of Cicero. He was the friend of Calpurnius Piso, and was implicated around his profligacy by Cicero (around Pisonem, Xxix), world health organization, still, praises him warmly for his philosophical views & for the elegans lascivia of his verse form (cf. Horace, Satires, We. Ii. Great hundred). A Greek anthology contains thirty-4 of his epigrams. Froth a excavations of the villa at Herculaneum there have been recovered thirty-six treatises attributed to Philodemus, & it has been suggested that a villa was actually owned by him; however this is usually denied. These works treat using music, rhetoric, ethics, signs, virtues & vices, & defend a Epicurean viewpoint against a Stoics and a Peripatetics.
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The Philodemus Project Project to transcribe and publish the papyri of Philodemus which were recovered from Pompeii. Includes background information, pictures, partial translations. Philodemos Poems of this philosopher, translated from the Greek by George Economou. The Philodemus Text and Translation Project Description of this project, and of a conference held on this philosopher in 1995. |
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