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Sallustius Arthur Darby Nock

Sallustius By Arthur Darby Nock

Sallustius by Arthur Darby Nock


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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.

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Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe by Arthur Darby Nock

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.

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.

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NLS9781107645035
9781107645035
1107645034
Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe by Arthur Darby Nock
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2013-10-17
174
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