Anecdotes of the Cynics

Informationen zum Autor Robert Dobbin was born in New York City in 1958. He received a PhD in Classics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and taught history and classics at college level for years. He is the author of Epictetus Discourses: Book One (1998), as well as articles on Virgil, Plato and Pythagoras. He has also translated Epictetus's Discourses and Selected Writings (2008) for Penguin Classics. Currently he works as a book editor in northern California. Klappentext What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants. Zusammenfassung 'It's you who are the dogs...'

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert Dobbin (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9780241251461
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25146-1
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 160 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Englisch; Lektüre, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Rome, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman literature