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The Philodemus Series
I learned about the papyri from the villa at Herculaneum and their importance while doing research for my book, Tending the Epicurean Garden, where I dedicate a chapter to fiscal and spiritual...
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Reasonings About Philodemus’ on Arrogance
The practice of cataloguing the virtues is frequently seen in other traditions. Here Philodemus is summarizing and commenting on a writing by Ariston, whose identity is not entirely clear. Most of the...
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Reasonings About Philodemus’ On the Stoics
On the Cynical Roots of Stoicism On the Stoics is a polemic written by Philodemus where he argues that the founder of the Stoic school, Zeno, had been a pupil of the Cynics. The work starts out with...
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Reasonings About Philodemus’ On Music
The scroll On Music was written by Philodemus as a summary and commentary on four books written on music by various schools. The surviving fourth book comments on the theories on the physical and...
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On Epicurean Virtue
A discussion of Epicurean virtue is needed as a result of our constant encounters with students of philosophy who have been exposed to Stoic and Platonic notions about virtue devoid of context and of...
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About Philodemus’ The Poems
Like almost every other scroll written by Philodemus, this one was a reaction, summary and commentary on Crates of Mallus, who was himself commenting on theories by other thinkers. The book is mainly...
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Happy Herculaneum Day!
On August 24 of the year 79 of Common Era, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in the ash and pyroclastic material produced by the Mt Vesuvius eruption. The 79 eruption is the most famous...
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Happy Herculaneum Day! Today is the anniversary of the eruption of the volcano that destroyed the city of Herculaneum, which hosted both Philodemus of Gadara and the poet Horace. In memory of those who...
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On Philodemus’ Scroll 1005
The following is my synopsis and commentary of PHerc 1005, whose title is translated into French as “À l’addresse des …” in Les Epicuriens; the name of the scroll is not complete, but it seems to be...
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Philodemus’ Method of Studying and Cultivating the Virtues
The following essay is the first in a blog series that was written as a book review of The Ethics of Philodemus. The Ethics of Philodemus is a great introduction to the legacy of Philodemus of Gadara,...
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