The sculpted word: epicureanism and philosophical recruitment in ancient Greece

Map of the Villa Ludovisi. After Schreiber.

Figure 1. Bust of Epicurus.

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Figure 2. Bust of Metrodorus.

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Figure 3. Bust of Hermarchus.

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Figure 4. Bust of "Colotes."

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Figure 5 Bouchardon-Preisler engraving of "Epicurus philosophus."

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Figure 6. Reconstruction of Epicurus' statue according to Frischer.

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Figure 7. Ludovisi Epicurus (= statue 243 Schreiber).

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Figure 8. Bouchardon-Preisler, "Socrates philosophus."

Figure 9. "Puteanus" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16471).

Figure 10. "Howenius" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16562).

Figure 11. Ludovisi statue 245 Schreiber, as restored after 1900 (= Naudé's and Howenius' "Epicurus").

Figure 12. Bottari's illustration of the Epicurus-Metrodorus double herm found in 1742 under S. Maria Maggiore in Rome.