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Title: PARADOSIS AND SURVIVAL
THREE CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHY
By: Diskin Clay
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0472108964
ISBN 13: 9780472108961
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Pub. date: 28 February, 1998
Pages: 312
Description: The progression of Epicurean doctrine and rhetoric
Synopsis: 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, Duke University.
Illustrations: Illustrations,maps
Publication: US
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Returns: Returnable
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