  As we have seen (Section 2.2.5.3.3), the day-to-day conduct of an Epicurean community was a central topic of his works.  Accordingly, special place in Philodemus’ oeuvre is reserved for works about the Epicurean school itself, dealing with the example set by its founder and by certain of his students. The tenth book of the Collection, which like Diogenes Laertius’ own tenth book apparently dealt with Epicurus, may well have been the culmination of Philodemus’ historical work and was only one of a host of books about their own school written by Epicureans. Philodemus too wrote other books on the school. In his two books On Epicurus (PHerc. 1232 and 1289; see Section 2.2.4.4.1), he outlined Epicurus’ life and cited letters of Epicurus and his friends to show the school’s founder as a model of the philosophical life. In another book, perhaps titled something like Courses (pragmateiai) of Epicurean Memoirs (PHerc. 1418, also 310 and perhaps others), Philodemus portrays a number of early Epicureans by means of extracts of letters of the school’s founders (see Arrighetti 2003).