Timon of Phlius : Pyrrhonism into poetry

Timon of Phlius : Pyrrhonism into poetry / by Dee L. Clayman.

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...

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Main Author: Clayman, Dee L.
Other Authors: Timon, of Phlius, approximately 320 B.C.-approximately 230 B.C
Format: eBook
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009.
Series:Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; Bd. 98.
Subjects:
Timon, > of Phlius, > approximately 320 B.C.-approximately 230 B.C.
Pyrrhon, > of Elis.
Pyrrhon, > of Elis
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Pyrrhonismus
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:3110220806
9783110220803
3110220814
9783110220810
1282456768
9781282456761
9786612456763
6612456760
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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