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Timon of Phlius - Pyrrhonism into Poetry (Hardcover)
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Timon of Phlius - Pyrrhonism into Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Untersuchungen zur Antiken Literatur und Geschichte
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Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced
to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher
Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of
the fragments of Timon's works. Of his more than 100 titles, four
fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses
of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon
ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to
Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting
from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned
to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted
since Wachsmuth's edition of 1885, and carries his approach further
by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the
text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all
of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed
as literature, rather than as source material for the history of
philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle
Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of
Rhodes, were aware of Timon's work specifically, and of Skepticism
generally. The book concludes with a definition of "Skeptical
aesthetics" that places many of the characteristic features of
Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.
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