Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Philodemus and the Papyri from Herculaneum -- PART ONE: PHILODEMUS' ETHICAL, THEOLOGICAL, RHETORICAL, AESTHETIC, AND HISTORICAL WORKS -- All Things to All Men: Philodemus' Model of Therapy and the Audience of De Morte -- Philodemus on the Plain Speaking of the Other Philosophers -- Craft, Cult, and Canon in the Books from Herculaneum -- How to Commit Philosophy Obliquely: Philodemus' Epigrams in the Light of his Peri Parrhesias -- A Measure of Parrhesia: The State of the Manuscript of PHerc. 1471 -- PART TWO: PHILODEMUS' THOUGHT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD -- Epicurean Economics -- Philodemus, "On Wealth" and "On Household Management:" Naturally Wealthy Epicureans Against Poor Cynics -- Cicero, Philodemus, and the Development of Late Hellenistic Rhetorical Theory -- Remembering the Garden: The Trouble with Women in the School of Epicurus -- Call Me Frank: Lucian's (Self-)Defense of Frank Speaking and Philodemus' [Hebrew omitted] -- PART THREE: PHILODEMUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT WORLD -- The Pastoral Epistles in the Light of Philodemus' "On Frank Criticism" -- Paul's Frank Speech with the Galatians and the Corinthians -- Philodemus and Paul on Rhetorical Delivery ([Hebrew omitted]) -- Gadara: Philodemus' Native City -- Index of Ancient Authors and Texts -- Index of Modern Scholars -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.