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Philodemus
Philodemus
c. 110 BCE–c. 37 BCE · Naples
Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BCE) was a Greek Epicurean philosopher and poet who lived in Italy, associated with the area around Naples. Many of his prose works on ethics, rhetoric, music, poetry, and the history of philosophy survive in the carbonized papyrus rolls recovered from a villa at Herculaneum, making him an unusually well-documented Epicurean writer. He also wrote elegant short poems.
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About Naples
Naples, capital of the Campania region in southern Italy, began as a Greek settlement, refounded as Neapolis in the sixth century BCE. Tradition places Virgil's tomb in the city; papyri of the Epicurean Philodemus, recovered from the Villa of the Papyri at nearby Herculaneum, are kept in its National Library. Frederick II founded its university in 1224, where Thomas Aquinas studied and later taught. From the late thirteenth century until 1816 it was capital of the Kingdom of Naples and an important Catholic see. Its Jewish community dates back to Roman times; after the 1492 expulsion from Spain, Isaac Abarbanel served its king until the French took the city in 1495, and Jews had left Naples by 1541.
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