Dee L. Clayman, Timon of Phlius: Pyrrhonism into poetry. Berlin ; New York: Walter de Gruyter, coll. "Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte", 2009. x, 261 p.
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Présentation de l'éditeur:
Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced tothe world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon ofPhlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragmentsof Timon's works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain ofa catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi,a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophersof all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Claymanreconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outlinein Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragmentsby their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth's editionof 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation ofsyntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text ofLloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments aretranslated into English and discussed as literature, rather than assource material for the history of philosophy. Separate chaptersdemonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus,Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon's workspecifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with adefinition of “Skeptical aesthetics” that places many of thecharacteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.
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