Photo Galleries

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Historical Interest

Herculaneum (30 images)
Snapshots of the excavated city which is the locale of the Villa dei Papiri this the site where the charred scrolls of Philodemus were recovered.

Oinoanda (15 images)
Photos of the site where, ca. 200 CE, Diogenes presented to his city a large inscribed limestone wall conspicuously proclaiming the wisdom of Epicurus.

Museums

Capitoline Museum (Rome) (12 images)
Portraits of an Epicurus bust and the Epicurus/Metrodorus double-herm.

The Getty Villa (Malibu, CA) (125 images, offsite)
Photo tour of the museum facility styled upon the ancient Villa of the Papyri