  Key to understanding the ethics of managing an Epicurean community is Philodemus’ treatise (PHerc. 1471) dedicated to the school’s practice of frank criticism (parrhêsia). Its full title runs Of the books On Characters and Modes of Life written as epitomes from the lectures of Zeno, Book [ ?], which is On Frank Criticism, and testifies to the existence of a second series of Philodemus’ ethical works.