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Umm what? "[Pompeii and Herculaneum] weren’t necessarily vast repositories of lost literature" Not sure about Pompeii, but Herculaneum had the villa of Piso wi
by chrstphrhrt 11y ago
Umm what? "[Pompeii and Herculaneum] weren’t necessarily vast repositories of lost literature"
Not sure about Pompeii, but Herculaneum had the villa of Piso with tons of scrolls from Philodemus, who totally fleshed out the ideas of Epicurus, upon whose atomism all of modern science is based.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> Epicurus, upon whose atomism all of modern science is based. It is difficult to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement. Modern science makes no reference to Epicurean atomism, other than in the historical choice of the word "atom" to refer to something that Epicurus wasn't talking about.
- chrstphrhrt 11y agoOkay. Then I'd be interested to know about atomism after Lucretius and before the renaissance. Who was the first modern "inventor" of it? My comment was meant to express alarm that anyone could say there was no lost library buried by Vesuvius. Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri#Epicureanism_and_the_library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri#Epicureani...
- reality_czech 11y agoIt also contains the ideas of Priapus, upon whose ideas all modern trollery is based.