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15%OFFAndr Laks - Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX: Sophists, Part 2 (Loeb Classical Library) - 9780674997103 - V9780674997103
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX: Sophists, Part 2 (Loeb Classical Library)

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Description for Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX: Sophists, Part 2 (Loeb Classical Library) Hardcover. Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and Xeniades, along with the Anonymous of Iamblichus, the Dissoi Logoi, a chapter on characterizations of the 'sophists' as a group, and an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 115 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674997103
SKU
V9780674997103
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About Andr Laks
Andr Laks is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City. Glenn W. Most is Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago.

Reviews for Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX: Sophists, Part 2 (Loeb Classical Library)
Andr Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set.
(03/15/2018) The publication ... Read more

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