Philodemus (redirect from Philodemus of Gàdara) since the 18th century, many writings of his have been discovered among the charred papyrus rolls at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The task of excavating... 19 KB (1,913 words) - 02:18, 14 April 2024 |
Herculaneum (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia) lavish use of coloured marble cladding. Buildings of the ancient city include the Villa of the Papyri and the so-called "boat houses", where the skeletal... 46 KB (5,155 words) - 20:59, 6 April 2024 |
from the original gallery. The villa design was inspired by the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum and incorporated additional details from several other... 31 KB (2,899 words) - 16:01, 20 April 2024 |
writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus (plural: papyri or papyruses) can also refer to... 30 KB (3,405 words) - 08:01, 1 April 2024 |
Epicureanism (redirect from Riddle of Epicurian) the later Roman Empire. Deciphered carbonized scrolls obtained from the library at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum contain a large number of works... 62 KB (7,693 words) - 17:40, 14 April 2024 |
The Villa of the Mysteries (Italian: Villa dei Misteri) is a well-preserved suburban ancient Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy. It... 23 KB (2,829 words) - 02:10, 21 April 2024 |
Democritus (redirect from Democritus of Abdera) Democritus. Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. Democritus among the Abderites. Charles-Antoine Coypel, Cheerful Democritus, 1746. 2020 bust of Democritus... 20 KB (2,280 words) - 11:59, 4 April 2024 |
PHerc. Paris. 4 (category Greek-language papyri) and scanning of other Herculaneum papyri and otherwise heavily damaged texts. The Villa of the Papyri was buried during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD... 10 KB (1,142 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024 |
Dirk Obbink (category University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni) from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum), for the creation of an Oxford bank of digitised images of papyri. The newly digitised versions of the literary... 25 KB (2,863 words) - 08:33, 3 February 2024 |
Camillo Paderni (section Papyri) undertook the task of transcribing the Herculaneum papyri, obtained at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. Paderni used the method of slicing scrolls... 15 KB (1,903 words) - 18:18, 30 November 2023 |
The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part... 84 KB (9,985 words) - 19:57, 15 April 2024 |
Epicurus (redirect from Epicurus of Samos) conference papers being published on the subject. The texts from the library of Philodemus of Gadara in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, first discovered... 86 KB (10,091 words) - 18:12, 20 April 2024 |
Doxography (redirect from Successions of the Philosophers) (On Stoics). Among the papyri found at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, there are works devoted to the successions of the Stoics, Academics, and... 5 KB (569 words) - 21:35, 9 April 2023 |
Doryphoros (redirect from The Spear-Bearer) The Doryphoros (Greek Δορυφόρος Classical Greek Greek pronunciation: [dorypʰóros], "Spear-Bearer"; Latinised as Doryphorus) of Polykleitos is one of the... 16 KB (2,061 words) - 20:11, 10 February 2024 |
promote the conservation of the artefacts and buildings at Herculaneum. The Society's members are particularly interested in the Villa of the Papyri and in... 5 KB (505 words) - 07:45, 4 June 2023 |
Getty (section The Getty family and its businesses) located near Malibu, California, part of the J. Paul Getty Museum, designed as a recreation of the Villa of the Papyri Don Getty (1933–2016), Canadian politician... 4 KB (502 words) - 16:16, 22 February 2023 |
those on a ziggurat.[citation needed] At the seaside Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, the villa gardens of Julius Caesar's father-in-law were designed... 15 KB (1,619 words) - 19:40, 12 March 2024 |
Pan (god) (redirect from The Great God Pan is Dead) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat... 52 KB (6,067 words) - 18:25, 21 April 2024 |
De rerum natura (redirect from On the Nature of the Universe) at the Villa of the Papyri, it would suggest that it was studied by the Neapolitan Epicurean school. Copies of the poem were preserved in a number of medieval... 62 KB (6,892 words) - 16:35, 10 April 2024 |
Antonio Piaggio (category Year of death uncertain) in the 1750s, and spent the years 1779-1795 recording the activity of Vesuvius in a diary, for Sir William Hamilton. In 1752, the Villa of the Papyri was... 5 KB (485 words) - 13:31, 27 March 2024 |
made of metal, ceramic or plastic. At the end of the spout, a "rose" (a device, like a cap, with small holes) can be placed to break up the stream of water... 5 KB (459 words) - 20:20, 28 April 2024 |
Hedonism (redirect from Criticisms of hedonism) at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum are Epicurean texts. At least some are thought to have belonged to the Epicurean Philodemus. The concept of hedonism... 63 KB (7,333 words) - 13:29, 18 April 2024 |
Rectina (category Year of birth unknown) Tascius Pomponianus of Stabia. Several scenes in Robert Harris' bestselling novel Pompeii are set in the Villa of the Papyri, just before the eruption engulfed... 2 KB (326 words) - 18:02, 7 August 2022 |
Codex (section The libraire) In the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum (buried in AD 79), all the texts (of Greek literature) are scrolls (see Herculaneum papyri). However... 32 KB (3,914 words) - 10:42, 23 April 2024 |