---
name: Philodemus of Gadara
name_greek: Φιλόδημος ὁ Γαδαρεύς
eul_aid: msu
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/philodemus-of-gadara-msu"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
affiliation: Epicurean
works_count: 3
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Philodemus of Gadara

*Φιλόδημος ὁ Γαδαρεύς*

**eul_aid:** `msu` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/philodemus-of-gadara-msu)

Philodemus was a Hellenistic Epicurean philosopher and poet from Gadara. Read his surviving treatises. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Index of Stoics of Herculaneum](https://eulogikon.org/works/philodemos-of-gadara-index-stoicorum-msu-ac) — *Σύνταξις τῶν φιλοσόφων (Index Stoikōn Herkoulanesion)* · `msu-ac`
- [On Rhetoric](https://eulogikon.org/works/philodemus-gadara-rhetoric-msu-ab) — *ΠΕΡΙ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗΣ* · `msu-ab`
- [On the Existing Books of Music](https://eulogikon.org/works/philodemus-gadara-existing-music-books-msu-aa) — *Περὶ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων βιβλίων μουσικῆς* · `msu-aa`

## License and provenance

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