Metrodorus - Paris, France
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In this sculpture, the Greek philosopher Metrodorus is depicted with his head back to back with his mentor Epicurus.
Waymark Code: WMEDZ6
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 05/13/2012
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This marble sculpture is located in the Louvre and dated from the 1st century BC. The bust depicts Metrodorus as a middle-aged man with a curly beard. The bust is melded to another bust of Metrodorus' master, Epicurus, whose philosophy he championed. Epicurus is depicted as a somewhat older man....and also with a long bushy beard.
There is another photo of this sculpture on the Wikipedia page (
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"Metrodorus of Lampsacus ...331/0–278/7 BC was a Greek philosopher of the Epicurean school. Although one of the four major proponents of Epicureanism, only fragments of his works remain...
Metrodorus was a native of Lampsacus on the Hellespont. His father's name was Athenaeus or Timocrates, his mother's Sande. Together with his brother Timocrates of Lampsacus he joined the school Epicurus had set up in their home town. Timocrates, however, soon fell out with both his brother and Epicurus and devoted the rest of his life to spreading malicious slander about them. Metrodorus on the other hand soon became the most distinguished of the disciples of Epicurus, with whom he lived on terms of the closest friendship, and whom he later followed to Athens, never having left him since he became acquainted with him, except for six months on one occasion, when he paid a visit to his home. He died in 278/7 BC, in the 53rd year of his age, seven years before Epicurus, who would have appointed him his successor had he survived him. He left behind him a son named Epicurus, and a daughter, whom Epicurus, in his will, entrusted to the guardianship of Amynomachus and Timocrates of Potamus, to be brought up under the joint care of themselves and Hermarchus, and provided for out of the property which he left behind him. In a letter also which he wrote upon his death-bed, Epicurus commended the children to the care of Idomeneus, who had married Batis, the sister of Metrodorus. The 20th of each month was kept by the disciples of Epicurus as a festive day in honour of their master and Metrodorus. Leontion is spoken of as the wife or mistress of Metrodorus."