page_title: Tetrapharmakos
hierarchical_section_title: Tetrapharmakos
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of Herculaneum Papyrus 1005 (P.Herc.1005), col. 5. Contains Epicurean tetrapharmakos from Philodemus' Adversus Sophistas. Original from 1st century(?). Handwritten copy by Giuseppe (?) Casanova 1803-1806.
context_page_description: The Tetrapharmakos "four-part remedy" is a summary of the first four of the Κύριαι Δόξαι in Epicureanism, a recipe for leading the happiest possible life.
  They are recommendations to avoid anxiety or existential dread.
  The "tetrapharmakos" was originally a compound of four drugs; the word has been used metaphorically by Roman-era Epicureans. to refer to the four remedies for healing the soul.
context_section_description: The Tetrapharmakos (τετραφάρμακος) "four-part remedy" is a summary of the first four of the Κύριαι Δόξαι (Kuriai Doxai, the forty Epicurean Principal Doctrines given by Diogenes Laërtius in his Life of Epicurus) in Epicureanism,  a recipe for leading the happiest possible life.  
  They are recommendations to avoid anxiety or existential dread.
  The "tetrapharmakos" was originally a compound of four drugs (wax, tallow, pitch and resin); the word has been used metaphorically by Roman-era Epicureans. to refer to the four remedies for healing the soul.
caption: The tetrapharmakos as found in the Herculaneum papyrus in the Villa of the Papyri.
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