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suddenlybananastoday at 5:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

Probably a lot more texts of Epicurean philosophy and not a whole lot else unfortunately according to my papyrologist friend.


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Matticus_Rextoday at 6:53 PM

That's what was thought, but maybe not -- only one of the three so far looks Epicurean, which is not what was expected. Maybe it's a fluke, but historians are buzzing a bit about whether it might be broader than expected.

cwmooretoday at 6:05 PM

Why would Epicurean philosophy be unfortunate?

I was under the impression that there was almost nothing left of that school of thought, and that it’s writings had been destroyed.

What would you like to have instead?

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kometoday at 7:34 PM

in the paper it says "The recovered text is a philosophical treatise on ethics, and the evidence points to a Stoic work: it turns on human nature, impulse, and the moral progress of human beings, and its final preserved column names Aristocreon — nephew and disciple of the great Stoic Chrysippus — which, together with the language and themes of the text, places it in a Stoic context and dates it to the 2nd century BC."