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Title: From Polypragmon to Curiosus Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome
Description: Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. ISBN: 0199668612. Light bump to top of spine. Else book is fine. ; From Polypragmon to Curiosus is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behaviour. Founded on a detailed investigation of a family of Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each other, and of the Latin words used to describe them, opening chapters survey how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC, moving onto their Latin usage and relationship to that of Hellenistic and imperial Greek. Other chapters adopt a more thematic approach and consider how words, such as polypramon, periergos, philopragmon, and curiosus, are employed in descriptions of the world of knowledge opened up by empire - in discourses of pious and impious curiosity, in reflections on what constitutes useful and useless learning, and in descriptions of style. The themes which the volume addresses remain alive throughout the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, most obviously through emblematic figures of human curiosity, such as Dante's Ulisse and Marlowe's Dr Faustus. ; 272 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0199668612 Classical Greek & Roman Curious Plays & Drama

Price: US$ 78.00 Seller: Ancient World Books
- Book number: 16622

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