Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 52)

ISBN 10: 0521190258 / ISBN 13: 9780521190251

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014

About this Item

First Edition. 1st edition. Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Clean and solid. No tears, stains, or odors. NOT a book club edition. NOT ex-library. Hand-wrapped and packaged in cardboard.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 52)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521190258
• ISBN 13: 9780521190251
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This book provides the first edition of all testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main representative for us of ancient Scepticism. It will be an essential reference work for all those scholars and students dealing with the history of ancient Scepticism. It provides an extensive philosophical and historical commentary, and throws light on a series of questions concerning the philosophy of the late Academy, Stoic Heracliteanism, and the interaction between medicine and philosophy in the late Hellenistic era.

About the Author

Roberto Polito is a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and his main area of interest is Hellenistic philosophy and medicine. His publications include studies on the Sceptical tradition (The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus' Appropriation of Heraclitus, 2004) and the physician Asclepiades of Bithynia.