The Treatment of Philosophy and Philosophers by the Greek Comic Poets PDF Download

Author: William Richard Grey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527706156
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Excerpt from The Treatment of Philosophy and Philosophers by the Greek Comic Poets: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy When Epicharmus came from Megara in Sicily to Syracuse in 483 B. C., the latest date at which he could have come, the doc trines of Pythagoras had been known in Italy and very probably in Sicily for nearly fifty years. Pythagoras was dead, but the association which he had founded in Lower Italy lived on for nearly half a century. The man who had worked a revolution in restoring law and order in Crotona and whose fame had spread over all Lower Italy, l could not have remained unknown in the neighboring island of Sicily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.