<span>The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly took their cue from Epicurus and the other
Philodemus On Rhetoric: Translation and Exegetical Essays
β Scribed by Clive Chandler
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 243
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This constitutes the first translation into English of Longo Auricchio's text of the first two books of Philodemus' On Rhetoric and an attempt to reconstruct the procedure which Philodemus adopted in tackling the topic.
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