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- Commemoration of Epicurus
- Commemoration of Metrodorus
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- Pictures of Metrodorus
- Works of Metrodorus
- Diogenes Laërtius lists the following works by Metrodorus:[10]
- Πρὸς τοὺς ἰατρούς, τρία – Against the Physicians (3 volumes)
- Περὶ αἰσθήσεων – On Sensations
- Πρὸς Τιμοκράτην – Against Timocrates
- Περὶ μεγαλοψυχίας – On Magnanimity
- Περὶ τῆς Ἐπικούρου ἀρρωστίας – On Epicurus’s Weak Health
- Πρὸς τοὺς διαλεκτικούς – Against the Dialecticians
- Πρὸς τοὺς σοφιστάς, ἐννέα – Against the Sophists (9 volumes)
- Περὶ τῆς ἐπὶ σοφίαν πορείας – On the Way to Wisdom
- Περὶ τῆς μεταβολῆς – On Change
- Περὶ πλούτου – On Wealth
- Πρὸς Δημόκριτον – Against Democritus
- Περὶ εὐγενείας – On Noble Birth
- A Few Days In Athens
- Major Quotations
- Vatican Saying 47 (Epicurism.info)
- Belly
- VS10 - Mortality and infinity and eternity Metrodorus quoting Hesiod
- VS14 - Delaying without enjoying leisure.
- VS30 - We are all poured a daft of mortality
- City Without Walls?
- Mosaic At Autin Augustadorum - Metrodorus VS 14 and Epicurus quote PD5 (Also has poet Anacreon)
- Go to Wikiquote for Metrodorus ---
- Special Mention Memorial Calendar
- Philōnídēs of Laodicea
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- Philonides (Greek: Φιλωνίδης, c. 200 – c. 130 BCE) of Laodicea in Syria, was an Epicurean philosopher and mathematician who lived in the Seleucid court during the reigns of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Demetrius I Soter.
- He is known principally from a Life of Philonides, which was discovered among the charred papyrus scrolls at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.[1] Philonides was born into a family with good connections with the Seleucid court.[2] He is said to have been taught by Eudemus and Dionysodorus the mathematician.[3] Philonides attempted to convert Antiochus IV Epiphanes to Epicureanism, and later instructed his nephew, Demetrius I Soter, in philosophy.[2] Philonides was highly honoured in the court, and he is also known from various stone inscriptions.[4]
- He was renowned as a mathematician, and is mentioned by Apollonius of Perga in the preface to the second book of his Conics.[3][5]
- Philonides was a zealous collector of the works of Epicurus and his colleagues, and is said to have published over 100 treatises, probably compilations of the works he collected.[6]
- Leontion
- LEONTIUM, An Athenian courtezan, who lived about B. C. 350, became a convert to the philosophy of Epicurus. She married Metrodorus, one of the principal disciples of Epicurus, and had a son by him, whom Epicurus commended to the notice and regard of his executors. She wrote in defence of the Epicurean philosophy, against Theophrastus, one of the principal of the peripatetic sect. The book is said by Cicero to have been written in a polite and elegant style. From her love of letters, she was drawn by Theodoras the painter, in a posture of meditation.Recent Developments
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