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Author: Sextus Empiricus ,
D. L. Blank (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles) ,
David L. Blank
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.752kg
ISBN: 9780198244707
ISBN 10: 0198244703
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 26 March 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Doing justice to the many sides of Math is no easy task ... In this volume Blank rises splendidly to the challenge. A clear and accurate translation is prefaced by an introduction that places the work in the diverse contexts to which it belongs. Journal of Hellenic Studies The ancient philosophers among you will have already read this book, such is the importance of its topic, the excellence of its author, and the prestige of its series, whose general editors ... have backed an unbroken string of winners. Classical Review ... can be regarded as the standard English version for the forseeable future ... There is an enormous amount to be learnt from this volume, and it is not hard to find what one is looking for. Classical World
`Blank's edition is a triumph. The translation is excellent. The commentary is very full - nearly five times the text - and provides good treatments of the individual arguments and exceptionally rich citations of related grammatical texts, most of which are unlikely to be familiar to the general classicist.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `It is the leading virtue of B's commentary that he always guides us through the screen of Sextan perversity into the positive riches that lie behind.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `Read Sextus alone and he may strike you as a footling; read B's commentary and a lost world of scholarship and intelligent controversy emerges from the mist.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `B. has poured into this volume the results of decades of immersion in the study of ancient grammar, and the pay-off for readers is immense.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `The ancient philosophers among you will have already read this book, such is the importance of its topic, the excellence of its author, and the prestige of its series, whose general editors. . .have backed an unbroken string of winners.' Tad Brennan, Classical Review 50
`Blank's edition is a triumph. The translation is excellent. The commentary is very full - nearly five times the text - and provides good treatments of the individual arguments and exceptionally rich citations of related grammatical texts, most of which are unlikely to be familiar to the general classicist.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `It is the leading virtue of B's commentary that he always guides us through the screen of Sextan perversity into the positive riches that lie behind.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `Read Sextus alone and he may strike you as a footling; read B's commentary and a lost world of scholarship and intelligent controversy emerges from the mist.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `B. has poured into this volume the results of decades of immersion in the study of ancient grammar, and the pay-off for readers is immense.' Tad Brennan, The Classical Review, 2000. `The ancient philosophers among you will have already read this book, such is the importance of its topic, the excellence of its author, and the prestige of its series, whose general editors. . .have backed an unbroken string of winners.' Tad Brennan, Classical Review 50
