Philodemus, On Property Management (writings From The Greco-roman World)
by Voula Tsouna /
2013 / English / PDF
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Philodemus was an important Epicurean philosopher active in
southern Italy in the first century B.C.E. His treatise On Property
Management, whose surviving part is completely translated here into
English for the first time, focuses primarily on the vices or
virtues involved in the acquisition and preservation of property
and wealth. The extant remains of the work contain the most
extensive and thorough treatment of property management found in
any Hellenistic author. Philodemus criticizes rival writings by
Xenophon and Theophrastus on the subject of oikonomia, or property
management, and defends his own Epicurean views on the topic. More
systematic and philosophical than rival approaches, the treatise
clarifies many moral issues pertaining to the possession and
preservation of property and wealth and provides plausible answers
to a cluster of moral questions.
Philodemus was an important Epicurean philosopher active in
southern Italy in the first century B.C.E. His treatise On Property
Management, whose surviving part is completely translated here into
English for the first time, focuses primarily on the vices or
virtues involved in the acquisition and preservation of property
and wealth. The extant remains of the work contain the most
extensive and thorough treatment of property management found in
any Hellenistic author. Philodemus criticizes rival writings by
Xenophon and Theophrastus on the subject of oikonomia, or property
management, and defends his own Epicurean views on the topic. More
systematic and philosophical than rival approaches, the treatise
clarifies many moral issues pertaining to the possession and
preservation of property and wealth and provides plausible answers
to a cluster of moral questions.