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Mantissa

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Mantissa

By Jonathan Barnes

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This is the fourth (and last) volume of Jonathan Barnes' collected essays on ancient philosophy. As its title suggests, the twenty-three papers which it contains cover a wide range of topics. The first paper discusses the size of the sun, and the last looks at Plato and Aristotle in Victorian Oxford. In between come pieces on-inter alia-the theory of just war and the definition of comedy, the nature of the soul according to Plato and Aristotle and Zeno andTertullian, atheism of Protagoras, Timae...Show more

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9780198709282

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Oxford University Press

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2014

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Mantissa

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