Posts by michelepinto

Everyone can Join. The administrator the will admit you. Is a University workshop, but is free for everyone.

The first meeting was held today, fantastic!

Tomorrow there will be speeches only in Italian, but on Saturday at 15:00 Rome time there will be four speeches in English.

This is the link to join google meet: http://meet.google.com/rjj-seax-jbk

I would like to meet you there.

Professor Francesco Verde of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" organizes an online workshop dedicated to Epicurus with the participation of some of the most important epicurean scholars in the world.

And many of the speeches will be in English.

Everyone can participate.

You can download the pdf here and here.

In the coming days I will release the announcement of the second NetoIP award on the best thesis on Epicurus.

See you soon!

Thank you!
But we must be gratefull at Andrea. He made the music!

Quote from Cassius

And hey that is a great new AVATAR you are using!

Thank you!

I don't think the bust of Epicurus preserved in the Capitoline Museums in Rome and other busts scattered throughout south Europe have ever disappeared.

Obviously when Raphael painted the School of Athens there were no cameras, and very few people knew Greek to be able to read the name of Epicurus on his bust.

But above all for Raphael it was not important that the appearance of Epicurus was real, the figure he painted had to embody the (wrong) idea that at the time there was of Epicurus.

I'll be there. And I'll try to collect all them for you.

Again in Rome an amazing workshop about Epicurus.

Click on immage to download pdf version.

Thanks to the generosity and love for culture of NetoIP (Italian telephone operator), here the first prize dedicated to Epicurus is born.

The best master's or doctoral thesis, in Italian or English, will be awarded with € 1,500.

With this award, the World Cultural Association of Epicurus, co-organizer of the award together with NetoIP, intends to thank all those who study the ancient texts, the papyri, the archaeological excavations, the fragments, the testimonies, to give us back an authentic Epicurus. Only thanks to their studies does everything we do by divulging and updating Epicurus' thought make sense.

The winner will be invited to present his work - and to collect the prize - during the Second Epicurean Festival in Senigallia (Italy) from 22 to 26 July 2020.

Here you can download the announcement in Italian and English.

As an Italian and an Epicurean I'm happy that Epicurus name is into the "Divina Commedia". Is one of the most beautiful poem of ever. Unfortunatly Dante do not know much about Epicurus.

Those are Dante's words:
Suo cimitero da questa parte hanno

con Epicuro tutti suoi seguaci,

che l’anima col corpo morta fanno.

My horrible translation:
Here the groves of Epicurus and his followers, they think the soul will die with the body.

Dante do not know almost anything about Epicurus.
In his journey in the Hell he met epicureans like everybody born before Christ.

Hallo everybody!

Great news from Italy!

We (Italian epicureans) realized an annually scolarship of 1500€ for the best thesis about Epicurus. We are working on it with Rome and Milan University.

I'll have some more news really soon. Stay tuned.

I have never seen this before. Tel me more, please!

Google translation is horrible!
I'm still reading it. I liked what I read!

Quote from Cassius

I would be very interested in your comments on the Francis Wright book.... Maybe your review of it, or something you plan for the intro to the Italian edition?

As I told it is an hard and long work. I have a lot of time to think about it. I can ask Hiram if I can translate his work. Or I can write something myself. Or I can ask some italian friends to write something (I'm lazy, and the last one is the easy one ).

The only think I'm sure about is that I'll write an excuse to readers because I had to translate from English and not from the original greek founded in Ercolano as Francis Wright wrote.

One or two things more:
I read the Italian version of this wonderful book:
https://www.amazon.it/Epicurus-Ethic…&s=books&sr=1-6

I met Francesco Verde of La Sapienza University of Rome. He is the most important connoisseur of Epicurus in the Italian university world and not only in Italy. And He will be at "Free as Epicurus" in Senigallia.
Two of his books:
https://www.amazon.it/Epicuro-France…&s=books&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.it/Epistola-Erodo…ks&sr=1-1-fkmr0

I forgot... Elli will be a conference Speaker in "Free as Epicurus". Well, she still did not answered at my invitation... but I hope she will do!

A lot of planes!
I'm translating A few days in Athens in Italian (It is an hard a long work)
I'm organizing the second Epicurean Festival: "Free as Epicurus". It will be 22/26.7.2020 In Senigallia Italy. You all should come.
We are creating an association, probably called "The garden of Epicurus, Senigallia".
In Vicenza in January will be an appointment called "Epicurus and Zen" and I'll go.

I'll write somothing about it later, but most of the relators agree about Epicureism was very popular until IV century.

Here the titles:


Francesco Verde: Epicureism in the imperial age: an introductory sketch

Jurgen Hammerstaedt: Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria against Epicurean atomism

Enrico Piergiacomi (http://epicuro.org/liberta-piacer…-piergiacomi/): The Epicurean Damide and the Zeus tragedo of Luciano. Epicurean rhetoric and theology in Imperial Rome

Alison Keith: Epicurean currents in Martial's Epigrams

Selene I.S. Brumana: Epicurus's "non-philosophy" according to the Platonist Maximus of Tire

Federico Giulio Corsi: The Epicureism of Diogenes of Enoanda