La ›Kompendienliteratur‹ nella scuola di Epicuro : Forme, funzioni, contesto / Vincenzo Damiani.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Damiani, Vincenzo, author.

Series:

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 396.

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 396

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Antike Textform.

Epikureismus.

Epitom.

Kompendienliteratur.

Local Subjects:

Antike Textform.

Epikureismus.

Epitom.

Kompendienliteratur.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVII, 396 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In Italian.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus' acts of summary, thereby closing a long-standing scholarly lacuna. To this end, a review of existing research is followed by an analysis of the terminology used in antiquity to designate philosophical and scientific compendia. The Epicurean sources are then surveyed chronologically. In two further chapters, Epicurean compendia are discussed in the broader context of ancient philosophical summaries. Their patterns of genre are illuminated not only on the basis of Epicurus' own remarks but through related texts, in which authors explain the principles undergirding their own 'poetics of abridgement'. The concluding chapter advances an updated summary of Epicurus' fragmentary "On Nature", interpreting his compendia not merely as sources for reconstructing the main treatise, but as texts with literary value in their own right. This monograph therefore provides the first complete presentation of Epicurean philosophical compendia, arguing for an interpretation of the rhetoric of philosophical texts while also being informed by metaliterary details afforded by other ancient sources.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Premessa

Sommario

Abbreviazioni

1 Introduzione

2 Premesse teoriche

3 Questioni terminologiche

4 Epicuro

5 La scuola di Epicuro

6 La Kompendienliteratur filosofica antica

7 La praefatio epitomatoris e i caratteri del testo compendiario

8 Il trattato e il compendio

9 Conclusioni

Bibliografia

Index locorum

Index nominum antiquorum

Notes:

Dissertatrion Uni Würzburg / SNP Pisa 2019.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021).

ISBN:

9783110711585

3110711583

OCLC:

1266228515

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.