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Philodemus of Gadara was an Epicurean philosopher and epigrammatist who lived from 110 BCE to around 35 BCE. He studied in Athens before moving to Italy where he would become associated with the Roman senator L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus. Until the eighteenth-century Philodemus was best known for his epigrams preserved in The Greek Anthology, however since then many more of his writings have been discovered.