page_title: Herculaneum papyri
hierarchical_section_title: Herculaneum papyri
caption_attribution_description: English: De poem. 5 col. 24N, drawn by Giuseppe Casanova, ca. 1807
context_page_description: The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyri found in the Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri, in the 18th century, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
  The papyri, containing a number of Greek philosophical texts, come from the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. Most of the works discovered are associated with the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara.
context_section_description: The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyri found in the Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri, in the 18th century, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
  The papyri, containing a number of Greek philosophical texts, come from the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. Most of the works discovered are associated with the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara.
caption: Herculaneum papyrus 1425 (De poem), drawn by Giuseppe Casanova, ca. 1807
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