Naming Philo of Alexandria’s Exposition of the Law
When presenting the works of ancient authors who have left behind a substantial body of writings, modern editors have to make choices. Individual treatises have to be grouped together or at least organized in a particular order. Sometimes decisions are easy. In the case of the Histories of the secon...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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The studia Philonica annual
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Pages: 1-11 |
| Summary: | When presenting the works of ancient authors who have left behind a substantial body of writings, modern editors have to make choices. Individual treatises have to be grouped together or at least organized in a particular order. Sometimes decisions are easy. In the case of the Histories of the second century BCE Greek historian Polybius, to give one example out of many, the editor need do no more than follow the numbering of the surviving books of the multi-volumed work. Less straightforward, to take another example, is the case of the Platonic corpus. Here, since the 1513 Aldine editio princeps,... |
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| ISSN: | 1052-4533 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The studia Philonica annual
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