: Dee L. Clayman
: Timon of Phlius Pyrrhonism into Poetry
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110220810
: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und GeschichteISSN
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: CHF 204.20
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: Altertum
: English
: 271
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Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study of Timon’s work in English, and includes a new reconstruction of his most influential poemSilloi . All of the extant fragments are translated and discussed as literature rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. The book concludes with a definition of“skeptical aesthetics” that demonstrates the importance of Timon and early Skepticism to the most influential Hellenistic poets: Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes.



Dee L. Clayman, City University of New York, USA.

Acknowledgements6
Abbreviations8
Contents10
Chapter 1 - The Lives of Timon and Pyrrho17
Chapter 2 - Timon and Pyrrho: The Pytho and the Indalmoi58
Chapter 3 - Timon's Silloi: Organization and Principle Fragments86
Chapter 4 - The Silloi in its Literary Context128
Chapter 5 - Timon's Reception in Hellenistic Literature156
Chapter 6 - Skepticism in Hellenistic Literature185
Conclusion - An Aesthetics of Skepticism220
Bibliography229
Index locorum256
General Index266