Philodemus in Italy

The Books from Herculaneum

By Marcello Gigante
Translated by Dirk Obbink

Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Imprint: University of Michigan Press

Paperback : 9780472089086, 192 pages, 16 photographs, 5.25 x 9, December 2002
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.13820

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A lively and concise survey of current scholarship on difficult but fascinating texts by this Epicurean poet and philosopher

Marcello Gigante is Director of the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, University of Naples.

Dirk Obbink is Professor of Classics, Barnard College.