Empedocles

Informationen zum Autor Simon Trepanier Klappentext Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles a " one of the founding figures of Western philosophy a " since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light. Zusammenfassung Offering a complete reinterpretation of Empedocles, Simon Trepanier reconstructs a single original philosophical poem, against previous interpretations which allocate our extant fragments on two works: a religious poem, "The Purifications", and a scientific poem, "On Nature". Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Single-Work Hypothesis 2. The Framework: Proem and Doctrine 3. Interpreting the Framework 4. The Persuasion of Empedocles 5. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Simon Trepanier
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2004
• EAN: 9780415967006
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96700-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Studies in Classics; Studies in Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Reference, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation