Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists
by thaumasiotes on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:09AM
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> 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.
Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists
by chrstphrhrt on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:48PM
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Okay. 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#Epicureani...
Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists
by reality_czech on Saturday February 13, 2016 @03:32AM
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It also contains the ideas of Priapus, upon whose ideas all modern trollery is based.
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.