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Timon of Phlius : Pyrrhonism into poetry /
Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study of Timons work in English, and includes a new reconstruction of his most influential poem Silloi . All of the extant fragments are translate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Griego Antiguo |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ;
Bd. 98. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study of Timons work in English, and includes a new reconstruction of his most influential poem Silloi . All of the extant fragments are translated and discussed as literature rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. The book concludes with a definition of "skeptical aesthetics" that demonstrates the importance of Timon and early Skepticism to the most influential Hellenistic poets: Callimachus, Theocritus and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3110220806 9783110220803 3110220814 9783110220810 1282456768 9781282456761 9786612456763 6612456760 |