PROBABLY THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF PHILODEMUS' ON VICES Thanks to cutting-edge X-ray imaging and digital unwrapping techniques, researchers have identified the scroll as part of Philodemus’s Epicurean treatise, marking the first time that a scroll from Herculaneum has yielded such precise authorial and textual information through non-invasive methods. His writings, long buried and carbonized in the Villa of the Papyri, offer invaluable insight into Hellenistic philosophy and ethics. Lost Work of Greek Philosopher Philodemus Unearthed from Herculaneum Scroll | Greek Reporter

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