The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 92682981
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691161136
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph constitutes an extended, complex work of research based on several years of analysis of exceptionally difficult primary sources (hundreds of pages of untranslated Greek and Latin fragments, presenting formidable challenges of source criticism). It is the first and still the only comprehensive interpretation and critical evaluation of the cultural and doctrinal history of the Cyrenaic movement. It overturns the previous consensus about core Cyrenaic doctrines, hitherto always treated in isolation. Moreover, its multi-layered thematic approach knits together all the evidence, and in this way gives philosophical significance to features that were mere curiosities until now.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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