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The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer ...

Philodemus was the in-house philosopher for the villa’s owner, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a Roman consul and senator and a fellow Epicurean who was also Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.

The tome, on how to live a virtuous life, was written by Greek Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who lived in Herculaneum from 110 B.C. until 35 B.C.

Philodemus was said to be integral to spreading Epicureanism to Rome, a system of philosophy founded in 307 BCE based on the teachings of Epicurus. DON'T MISS ...

The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was written by an ancient Greek philosopher, Philodemus.

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 ...

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