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Hardcover Philodemus on Poems Books 3-4: With the Fragments of Aristotle on Poets Book

ISBN: 0199572070

ISBN13: 9780199572076

Philodemus on Poems Books 3-4: With the Fragments of Aristotle on Poets

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The On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC) survived amid the library of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The papyrus-rolls in this, the only library that survives from the ancient world, are with the aid of advanced technology at last able to be read, reconstructed, and translated. The On Poems, in five books, offers unique insights into ancient...

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