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Mathilde Brémond, Lectures de Mélissos. Édition, traduction et interprétation des témoignages sur Mélissos de Samos

2019; Presses Universitaires du Septentrion; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/philosant.1944

2648-2789

Benjamin Harriman,

Historical and Literary Analyses

Melissus of Samos has long been due an uptick in scholarly attention. His plainly worded, workmanlike Ionic prose offers a welcome contrast to Parmenides’ Epic—and often deeply obscure—hexameters. Melissus, too, seems to have come to be something of a representative for Eleatic thought in antiquity and makes intriguing appearances in Plato’s Theaetetus and, particularly, in Aristotle’s dialectical accounts of his predecessors that have never quite received satisfactory treatment. Happily, th...