Sallustius
Sallustius
Concerning the Gods and the Universe
Arthur Darby Nock
October 2013
Paperback
9781107645035
$40.00
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Originally published in 1926, this book contains the ancient Greek text of the fourth-century treatise Concerning the Gods and the Universe by Sallustius. Nock provides an English translation on each facing page, as well as a critical apparatus and a detailed set of prolegomena on the historical background, sources, style and transmission of the philosophical essay. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in late Roman philosophy and in the pagan response to early Christianity.
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October 2013Paperback
9781107645035
174 pages
229 × 152 × 10 mm
0.26kg
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Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Prologomena
- 1. The intellectual background
- 2. The context of the treatise
- 3. Sources and authorship
- 4. Style and form
- 5. The transmission of the text
- Text and translation
- Appendix. The readings of the Barberini manuscript
- Index 1. Subject
- Index 2. The Greek of Sallustius
- Index 3. Other texts emended or explained.
