Posidonius: Volume 1, Fragments Tapa dura - 1972

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. 0521080460 . Some dampstains to spine and rear board and to endpapers. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; liv, 336 pages. Brown cloth boars with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 138m. A collection of the fragments of Posidonius. The fragments are in the original Greek and Latin (mostly Greek). The Introduction is in English. "The only previous edition of the fragments, published in 1810, is incomplete and now very much out of date, and the present edition will be indispensale for specialist in Posidonian studies." - from dust-jacket blurb. "Ludwig Edelstein announced in 1936, in his justly famous article, 'The Philosophical System of Posidonius.' that he was preparing a collection of the fragments of Posidonius. Although he spent a great deal of time and effort on this project in the following years, and was recognised as a… Leer más

Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. dj., octavo. Some shelf-wear. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Dj.'s corners are clipped. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greek Literature).

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Posidonius, Volume 1: The Fragments (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 13). Edited by L. Edelstein, I. G. Kidd. 1972 by Cambridge University Press. Hardcover, 390 pages.

London, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Classic scholarly text contains a collection of the surviving attested fragments of Posidonius, the leading stoic philosopher of his time in the first half of the first century, B.C. This exhaustive work was begun by Prof. Edelstein, a preeminant authority on Posidonius, and subsequently completed and edited after his death by Ian Kidd. There are some sixty different ancient reporters represented in this volume. Text contains three parts: Testimonia; Fragments and Titles of Named Books; Fragments not Assigned to Books. Includes an index of Greek and Latin words and subjects; index of proper names; index of sources; and a concordance with Jacoby. 336 pgs. Gilt spine. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper. Dustjacket has minimal shelfwear. In mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.