LEADER 02771cam2 2200361 450 001 996636971403316 005 20250213100135.0 010 $a978-0-674-99756-1$b(vol. 1) 010 $a978-0-674-99757-8$b(vol. 2) 100 $a20250109d2023----km y0itay5003 ba 101 2 $aeng$agrc 102 $aUS 105 $ay 00 y 200 1 $aPhilosophical orations$fMaximus of Tyre$gedited and translated by William H. Race 210 $aCambridge (Massachusetts)$aLondon$cHarvard University Press$d2023 215 $a2 volumi (XXXIX, 479; VI, 424 p.)$d17 cm 225 2 $a<> Loeb classical library$v553-554 300 $aTesto originale a fronte 330 $aMaximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological import including the nature of divinity, the immortality of the soul, the sources of good and evil, the injustice of vengeance, the tyranny of pleasures and desires, the contribution of the liberal arts, and the pursuit of happiness, among many others. These addresses are conveniently labeled orations, but their fluid and hybrid style resists precise generic categorization, so that they could also be called discourses, speeches, lectures, talks, inquiries, essays, or even sermons. In his orations Maximus strove to elucidate the philosophical life of virtue, especially as exemplified in the career of Socrates and in the writings of Plato, inviting his audience, sometimes addressed as young men, to share in his knowledge, to appreciate his fresh presentation of philosophical topics, and perhaps even to join him in pursuing philosophy. Drawing on the Hellenic cultural tradition from Homer to the death of Alexander the Great, Maximus offers a rich collection of the famous philosophical, literary, and historical figures, events, ideas, successes, and failures that constituted Greek paideia in the so-called Second Sophistic era. This edition of Maximus? Philosophical Orations offers a fresh translation, ample annotation, and a text fully informed by current scholarship. (Fonte: editore) 410 0$1001000288034$12001$a<> Loeb classical library$v, 553-554 500 10$aDissertationes$9859022 676 $a885.01 700 0$aMAXIMUS : Tyrius$0441278 702 1$aRACE,$bWilliam Hosmer 801 0$aIT$bcba$gREICAT 912 $a996636971403316 951 $aV.1. Coll. 7/ 112 1$b290615 L.M.$cV.1. Coll.$d563679 951 $aV.1. Coll. 7/ 112 1a$b288961 L.M.$cV.1. Coll.$d454160 951 $aV.1. Coll. 7/ 112 2$b290617 L.M.$cV.1. Coll.$d563680 959 $aBK 969 $aUMA 996 $aDissertationes$9859022 997 $aUNISA