"Paradosis and Survival" presents Diskin Clay's fifteen essays
devoted to recovering the three main phases of Epicureanism in
antiquity: the origin in the first generation of the school in
Athens; its spread to Italy in the first century b.c.e.; and its
movement to Lycia in the second century c.e. Clay recognizes the
subtle intertwining of philosophy and lifestyle, and he makes use
of papyri and inscriptions as well as familiar philosophical texts
to illuminate both.
The first series of essays concentrates on the mechanisms Epicurus
devised to assure the survival of the philosophy beyond its
Athenian roots. Clay presents social history on an equal footing
with doctrine, and offers for the first time evidence for hero
cults among philosophers who believed that the soul died with the
body. The second set of essays concentrates Epicureanism in the age
of Cicero, Philodemus, and Lucretius. In the four essays on "De
Rerum Natura," Lucretius is viewed not as a transparency through
which we can view the Greek of Epicurus, but a Roman philosopher in
control of both doctrine and rhetoric. The book concludes with the
study of the philosophy in Oenoanda, Lycia, in which the author
brilliantly situates post-1968 discoveries from Oenoanda and the
Villa de Papiri in Herculaneum in the context of the second-century
mountain city.
This study of Epicureanism as a social movement will be of interest
to students of ancient philosophy and the philosophy of early
modern Europe, when Epicureanism was revived. In addition, scholars
of the New Testament will find parallels to the rise and spread of
Christianity.
Diskin Clay is the R. J. R. Nabisco Distinguished Professor of
Classical Studies, DukeUniversity.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 1998 |
| First published: |
February 1999 |
| Authors: |
Diskin Clay
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 39mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
312 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-10896-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-472-10896-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780472108961 |
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