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Philodemus On Piety - Part 1, Critical Text with Commentary (Hardcover)
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Philodemus On Piety - Part 1, Critical Text with Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Philodemus Translation Series
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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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