Posidonius: Volume 2, Commentary, Part 1

by Ian Gray Kidd and Posidonius

Posidonius was one of the most important philosophers and intellectuals writing in the Greco-Roman world of the first half of the first century B.C. This book is a commentary on the surviving testimonia and fragments of his work collected in volume 1. Its purpose is to explicate and understand the evidence of these fragments, which must form the basis for any estimate of Posidonius' contribution to the learning of his time in the history of ideas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604427
• ISBN13: 9780521604420
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"