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Philodemus, on anger /
"This English translation of On Anger provides a newly read and supplemented Greek text of one of the most important "Herculaneum papyri," the only collection of literary texts to survive the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. On Anger is our sole evidence for the Epicurean view of what c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Griego Antiguo |
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Atlanta, GA :
SBL Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Writings from the Greco-Roman world ;
45. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This English translation of On Anger provides a newly read and supplemented Greek text of one of the most important "Herculaneum papyri," the only collection of literary texts to survive the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. On Anger is our sole evidence for the Epicurean view of what constitutes natural and praiseworthy anger, as distinguished from unnatural pleasure in vengeance and cruelty for their own sake, a view that can be shown to have influenced Latin authors like Cicero, Horace and Virgil"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780884144281 0884144283 |