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A Papyrus Letter about Epicurean Philosophy Books
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
  • James G Keenan, Loyola University Chicago
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1977
Pages
91-94
Publisher Name
Getty Publications
Abstract

The J. Paul Getty Museum is housed in a successful recreation of the Villa dei Papyri in Herculaneum. Of the various types of artwork and artifacts bequeathed to the modern world by antiquity and now among the Museum's holdings, however, there was until recently a gap whose filling would have made the correspondence between the two buildings even more nearly complete. There were no papyri in the Museum's collection even though the original Villa was named after its rich library of papyrus rolls, containing mostly Epicurean texts. The first step to improve the situation in Malibu was taken by Mrs. Lenore Barozzi who generously presented the J. Paul Getty Museum with two papyri. One of them, the subject of this note, is particularly appropriate in that its contents concern Epicurean philosophy books.

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Author Posting. © 1977 J. Paul Getty Trust. This article is posted here by permission of the J. Paul Getty Trust for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Volume 5, 1977.

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Keenan, JG. "A Papyrus Letter about Epicurean Philosophy Books" in The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Volume 5, 1977. 91-94.