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PHILODEMUS ON PIETY
PART 1, CRITICAL TEXT WITH COMMENTARY |
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Philodemus, Dirk Obbink (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£300.00 |
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£262.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198150083 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198150084 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 December, 1996 |
| Series: |
Philodemus Translation Series |
| Pages: |
696 |
| Description: |
COPY FROM ABANDONED OUP USA EDITION: Introducing a new method of reconstructing the fragmented papyrus rolls excavated from Herculaneum, Philodemus On Piety offers a new critical text of the philosophical part of Philodemus' De pietate, together with an English translation and commentary. The best known among the papyri from Herculaneum, Philodemus's On Piety was adapted by Cicero in De natura deorum I. An innovative format presents on facing pages the technical details of the papyrus, and a continuous text with Englishtranslation and interpretive notes. New work on ancient religion and philosophy and the history of atheism is brought to bear on the interpretation of the text, which expounds Epicurus' theory of the gods and religious cults as an outgrowth of cultural history. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a complete edition, with prolegomena, translation, and commentary of the first, "philosophical" part of Philodemus' De Pietate, preserved in papyri. Introducing a new method for reconstructing the fragmented papyrus rolls recovered from Herculaneum, this is the first edition based on the papyri themselves (where they still exist), rather than on faulty reproductions, and the first edition to bring together fragments hitherto thought to be from different rolls. It will also be the first translation of the work into any language. An innovative format presents on facing pages the technical details of the papyrus, and a conventional, continuous text with interpretive notes. The work itself comprises a polemical treatise on the gods, mythography, and religion, presenting a defence of Epicurus's view of religion as an outgrowth of cultural history, and a philosophical rationale for participation in traditional cult practices in order to further social cohesion. |
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8 pp halftones, line illustrations |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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Returnable |
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