Author : Dee L. Clayman
Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Silloi by : Dee L. Clayman
Download or read book Silloi written by Dee L. Clayman. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.