Category: Epicurean Art
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By The Way, Our Friends of Epicurus In The Homeland Appreciate It When You Call Them “Hellenes” Rather Than “Greeks”
Time to take a break from today’s crusade against Stoicism and Platonism to post something a little lighter. I have recently become informed that our friends of Epicurus in the...
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“It Is Not Enough To Live Well; One Must Also Die Well.”
Hollywood rarely portrays Epicurean characters fairly, but the attached video clip from 1951’s Quo Vadis is one such an example, and in it we can find a useful portrayal of...
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Bernard Frischer Updates the Digital Reconstruction of the Sculpture of Epicurus!
Bernard Frischer just posted the following to the Garden of Epicurus' Facebook page: We just finished a 3D digital reconstruction of Epicurus' lost portrait. It was probably erected in Athens...
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The Tripod of Truth
When designing the cover for the first edition of my Jackson Barwis ebook, I used a photo of a replica of a tripod that had been discovered in Herculaneum. That...
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The Epicurus Sculpture Digital Re-creation
In case you haven’t already see it, there is an excellent page at digitalsculpture.org which displays an effort to reconstruct the image of Epicurus that would have been most familiar...
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Illustrating Epicureanism Through A Pompeian Mosaic
Short of some future scholar uncovering an inscription confirming the purpose of the mosaic found in the house of Marcus Vesonius Primus in Pompeii, there is no way for us to...
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Epicurean Art in the Ancient World
This post is to announce a new page devoted to collecting images of art from the ancient world which appear to have Epicurean themes. Please email suggestions for inclusion in...