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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILODEMUS , Epicurean philosopher and poet, was See also:

born at See also:Gadara in Coele-See also:Syria See also:early in the 1st See also:century B.C., and settled in See also:Rome in the See also:time of See also:Cicero. He was a friend of See also:Calpurnius See also:Piso, and was implicated in his profligacy by Cicero (in Pisonem, 29), who, however, praises him warmly for his philosophic views and for the elegans lascivia of his poems (cf. See also:Horace, Satires, 1. 2. 120). The See also:Greek See also:anthology contains See also:thirty-four of his epigrams. Froth the excavations of the See also:villa at See also:Herculaneum (q.v.) there have been recovered thirty-six See also:treatises attributed to Philodemus, and it has been suggested that the villa was actually owned by him; but this is generally denied. These See also:works See also:deal with See also:music, See also:rhetoric, See also:ethics, signs, virtues and vices, and defend the Epicurean standpoint against the See also:Stoics and the See also:Peripatetics. The Rhetoric has been edited by Sudhaus (1892-1895) ; the De Ira and the De Pietate by See also:Gomperz (1864 to 1865) ; the De Musica by Kempke (1884) ; De Vitiis by Ussing (1868) ; De Morte by Mekler (1886). See Hercul. Volum. (See also:Oxford, 1824 and 1861); See also:Mayor on Cicero's De Natura deorum (1871).

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