Anecdotes of the Cynics - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 024125146X ISBN 13 : 9780241251461

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

'It's you who are the dogs...'

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Dobbin was born in New York City in 1958. He received a PhD in Classics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and taught history and classics at college level for years. He is the author of Epictetus Discourses: Book One (1998), as well as articles on Virgil, Plato and Pythagoras. He has also translated Epictetus's Discourses and Selected Writings (2008) for Penguin Classics. Currently he works as a book editor in northern California.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'It's you who are the dogs...'

What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 024125146X
• ISBN 13: 9780241251461
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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