Philodemus°
PHILODEMUS°
PHILODEMUS° (c. 110–c. 40/35 b.c.e.), Epicurean philosopher from Gadara in Palestine. He founded a school at Herculaneum, Italy, and may have been a teacher of *Horace. He wrote Cynic diatribes. According to Hadas (see bibl.) his erotic poetry shows some parallels with the Song of Songs.
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