The Hellenistic Philosophers: Translations of the principal sources, with philosophical commentary"Study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy has been hampered by the inaccessibility and difficulty of the surviving evidence. To help students and scholars, Anthony Long and David Sedley have compiled a comprehensive sourcebook, which makes the principal texts available to the widest audience since classical antiquity. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically, thus providing the reader with immediate access to all the central concepts and the controversies they aroused in their historical context. In this book the authors present the texts in their own new translations, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and set of indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study. (Details of the Greek and Latin originals are available to specialists in a companion volume.) The collections should be invaluable to students and teachers of Greek thought in departments of philosophy and classical studies. No knowledge of Greek is required." -- |
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