While they cannot be opened due to the carbonization and other damage, their secrets are not entirely lost thanks to modern ...

With the help of AI, 15 passages have been deciphered from a 2,000-year-old unrolled Herculaneum scroll, providing a glimpse into the thoughts of an ancient philosopher.

Philodemus, according to the Bodleian Libraries, was an Epicurean philosopher whose teachings “emphasise the pursuit of pleasure as central to a good life.” ...

Philodemus: On Poems, Book I by Philodemus (Oxford University Press/Amazon) John J. Miller is joined by Richard Janko of the University of Michigan to discuss the works of Philodemus. To Read the ...

Philodemus wrote the work in the first century BCE and it is now being read for the first time since it was buried in the devastating volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.

Philodemus of Gadara was an Epicurean philosopher who lived from around 110 to 40 BCE and resided for a period in Herculaneum. His History of the Academy includes detailed information about the ...

Philodemus’s text detailed the academy that the renowned Greek philosopher and student of the legendary philosopher Socrates, Plato founded in the fourth century BC.

Author of 'On Vices', Philodemus (c. 110-30 BC), was an philosopher and poet from Gadara, an ancient Hellenistic city in what is now Jordan. ...

Philodemus, who lived between roughly 110 and 30 BCE, was an Epicurean philosopher and poet from Gadara. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds a number of the scrolls, which have been ...

With the help of AI, 15 passages have been deciphered from a 2,000-year-old unrolled Herculaneum scroll, providing a glimpse into the thoughts of an ancient philosopher.