Is There Still a Villa of the Papayri?

There's a whole lot of autobiographies and memoirs that we've lost, which sort of looks like a conspiracy. Somebody buried them at some point. It's also always possible that if they do more excavation at Herculaneum, that the villa of the papayri will generate more texts. A lot of people are disappointed that most of what they've found is by someone called Philodemus who was an Epicurean philosopher.

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