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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2021
      April 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108921084
      9781108843935
      9781108925846
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108921084
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 254 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 254 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Literature, Philosophy
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    Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length, literary-critical study of their work. It locates the surviving fragments in their performative and wider cultural contexts, applying intertextual and intratextual analyses in order to reconstruct the significance and impact they conveyed for ancient audiences and readers. Building on insights from literary theory and the philosophy of literature, the book sheds new light on these authors' philosophical projects and enriches our appreciation of their works as literary artefacts. It also expands our knowledge of the genres in which they wrote, of the literary culture of the Western Greek world, and of the development of Greek poetics from the Archaic to the Classical periods, exposing the influence of these thinkers on more famous Sophistic and Platonic ideas about literature.

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    ‘Mackenzie’s book will convince future researchers to pay more attention to the poetry of these three Presocratics.’

    David Sider Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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