Silloi
Author | : Dee L. Clayman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110220806 |
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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.