Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

It is truly amazing because impressive those houses may have been. You are into the sort of league that is only possible when you belong to the highest Roman elite. So the villa has been extremely plausibly attributed to a character called Calpurnius Pisa. In Cicero's day... Okay, yeah, yeah. There's a character he really, really, really dislikes. And he wrote a speech against Piso in Pisonem.

It is truly amazing because impressive those houses may have been. You are into the sort of league that is only possible when you belong to the highest Roman elite. So the villa has been extremely plausibly attributed to a character called Calpurnius Pisa. In Cicero's day... Okay, yeah, yeah. There's a character he really, really, really dislikes. And he wrote a speech against Piso in Pisonem.

And he mocks Piso for all sorts of things. The dusty busts of his ancestors on the walls and so on. And he mocks him for having a tame philosopher. A philosopher called Philodemus, who's an Epicurean. The Villa of the Papyri. Those amazing papyri. And wouldn't it be wonderful to read some more? And we will read some more.

And he mocks Piso for all sorts of things. The dusty busts of his ancestors on the walls and so on. And he mocks him for having a tame philosopher. A philosopher called Philodemus, who's an Epicurean. The Villa of the Papyri. Those amazing papyri. And wouldn't it be wonderful to read some more? And we will read some more.

And he mocks Piso for all sorts of things. The dusty busts of his ancestors on the walls and so on. And he mocks him for having a tame philosopher. A philosopher called Philodemus, who's an Epicurean. The Villa of the Papyri. Those amazing papyri. And wouldn't it be wonderful to read some more? And we will read some more.

And I am prepared to make an enormous bet on what the next papyrus they read will prove to be. It'll be work. who was a protégé of Calpurnius Pison. An extraordinary number, not all, but a majority of the papyri that have been read are works by Philodemus. Not only that, but there are as many as three copies of the same work by Philodemus.

And I am prepared to make an enormous bet on what the next papyrus they read will prove to be. It'll be work. who was a protégé of Calpurnius Pison. An extraordinary number, not all, but a majority of the papyri that have been read are works by Philodemus. Not only that, but there are as many as three copies of the same work by Philodemus.

And I am prepared to make an enormous bet on what the next papyrus they read will prove to be. It'll be work. who was a protégé of Calpurnius Pison. An extraordinary number, not all, but a majority of the papyri that have been read are works by Philodemus. Not only that, but there are as many as three copies of the same work by Philodemus.

Ooh, but the author would have three copies of his work on his shelves.

Ooh, but the author would have three copies of his work on his shelves.

Ooh, but the author would have three copies of his work on his shelves.

Yeah, enormous popularity. And in that period of the first century before, the first century after, it was a tussle between the Epicureans and the Stoics of what is the right philosophy to see you through life. Let's not go into the details, except to say that obviously from the name, we associate Epicurean with good living.

Yeah, enormous popularity. And in that period of the first century before, the first century after, it was a tussle between the Epicureans and the Stoics of what is the right philosophy to see you through life. Let's not go into the details, except to say that obviously from the name, we associate Epicurean with good living.

Yeah, enormous popularity. And in that period of the first century before, the first century after, it was a tussle between the Epicureans and the Stoics of what is the right philosophy to see you through life. Let's not go into the details, except to say that obviously from the name, we associate Epicurean with good living.

Whereas Stoicism is about duty and service, Epicureanism, it isn't really about enjoyment, but it's about escaping from false fears. False fears that the gods are going to do terrible things to you. False ambitions that you try to rise too high. And Piso, Calpurnius Piso, he was a consul. He had risen very high indeed. And he needed his tame philosopher to tell him, calm down, chill out.

Whereas Stoicism is about duty and service, Epicureanism, it isn't really about enjoyment, but it's about escaping from false fears. False fears that the gods are going to do terrible things to you. False ambitions that you try to rise too high. And Piso, Calpurnius Piso, he was a consul. He had risen very high indeed. And he needed his tame philosopher to tell him, calm down, chill out.

Whereas Stoicism is about duty and service, Epicureanism, it isn't really about enjoyment, but it's about escaping from false fears. False fears that the gods are going to do terrible things to you. False ambitions that you try to rise too high. And Piso, Calpurnius Piso, he was a consul. He had risen very high indeed. And he needed his tame philosopher to tell him, calm down, chill out.

Time to chill. Come and let's discuss business. atomic theory. No, I wish he had discussed atomic theory. Unfortunately, Philodemus was more interested in the good life than atomic theory, which is the other great thing that the Epicureans do. The fact that all those papyri point to Calpurnia spicer is then reinforced because Caesar's father-in-law is not the only one of the family.

Time to chill. Come and let's discuss business. atomic theory. No, I wish he had discussed atomic theory. Unfortunately, Philodemus was more interested in the good life than atomic theory, which is the other great thing that the Epicureans do. The fact that all those papyri point to Calpurnia spicer is then reinforced because Caesar's father-in-law is not the only one of the family.

Time to chill. Come and let's discuss business. atomic theory. No, I wish he had discussed atomic theory. Unfortunately, Philodemus was more interested in the good life than atomic theory, which is the other great thing that the Epicureans do. The fact that all those papyri point to Calpurnia spicer is then reinforced because Caesar's father-in-law is not the only one of the family.