Timon of Phlius (eBook)
Pyrrhonism into Poetry
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2009
271 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-022081-0 (ISBN)
271 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-022081-0 (ISBN)
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 Timon’s 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 Apollonius of Rhodes.
Dee L. Clayman, City University of New York, USA.
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Dee L. Clayman, City University of New York, USA.