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That Ariston was a pupil of Antiochus is confirmed by the Index Academicorum, a history of the Academy written by Philodemus in the 1st century BCE.
Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009
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Lucretius lived in Italy in a period when Epicureanism flourished there, especially in the area of the Bay of Naples, where a major Epicurean circle had formed around Philodemus. Philodemus.'library was rediscovered during the 18th-century excavations of Herculaneum (recent claims to have found remains of a copy of Lucretius' poem among its badly damaged contents may be unduly optimistic).
Lucretius Sedley, David 2008
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Philodemus, On Piety: (Stasinus?) writes that Castor was killed with a spear shot by Idas the son of Aphareus.
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Philodemus wrote extensively, including on the history of philosophy, ethics, music, poetry, rhetoric and the emotions.
Ancient Atomism Berryman, Sylvia 2005
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And, in the excavations of Herculaneum were found chapters of the treatise on piety by Philodemus (first century B.C.) reproaching the Stoics for abandoning anthropocentrism and polytheism (De pietate 17-18; Pépin, pp. 133-34).
MYTH IN ANTIQUITY PIERRE-MAXIME SCHUHL 1968
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The loss of the greatest part of Hellenistic literature, due to Atticist condemnation, is to some extent made good by the fragments of the Epicurean philosopher and poet, Philodemus of Gadara, On
Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968
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Cicero, like Philodemus, extended the principle of organic unity to the relation between language and thought in expression: “words do not subsist if you remove the meanings (res), nor can there be light in the meanings if you remove the words” (De oratore, III, 5-6).
ORGANICISM G. N. G. ORSINI 1968
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Philodemus, On Piety: (Stasinus?) writes that Castor was killed with a spear shot by Idas the son of Aphareus.
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Fragment #91 -- Philodemus, On Piety, 34: But Hesiod (says that Apollo) would have been cast by Zeus into Tartarus [1759]; but Leto interceded for him, and he became bondman to a mortal.
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Fragment #43 -- Philodemus [1735], On Piety, 10: Nor let anyone mock at
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