Rummaging in the Recycling Bins of Upper Egypt. A Discussion of A. Martin and O. Primavesi, L’Empédocle de Strasbourg, 2000
By: Osborne, Catherine
Title Rummaging in the Recycling Bins of Upper Egypt. A Discussion of A. Martin and O. Primavesi, L’Empédocle de Strasbourg
Type Article
Language English
Date 2000
Journal Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Volume 18
Pages 320-356
Categories no categories
Author(s) Osborne, Catherine
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Few interested parties in the scholarly world of ancient philosophy will, by this stage, be unaware of the story behind Alain Martin and Oliver Primavesi’s publication. It has been hot news, and the publication eagerly awaited, ever since the announcement in 1994 that a papyrus on which Alain Martin was working, under the auspices of the Bibliothèque Nationale and University of Strasburg, had been identified as containing verses of Empedocles, some of them almost certainly previously unknown. Nevertheless—-since there seems no better opening for a reflection on the significance of this discovery and on the value of its elegant publication—1 propose to begin by summarizing what I take to be most important among the undisputed facts before proceeding to ask how they affect our understanding of Empedocles and of what we are doing with texts when we study the Presocratics. [Author's abstract]

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Rummaging in the Recycling Bins of Upper Egypt. A Discussion of A. Martin and O. Primavesi, L’Empédocle de Strasbourg, 2000
By: Osborne, Catherine
Title Rummaging in the Recycling Bins of Upper Egypt. A Discussion of A. Martin and O. Primavesi, L’Empédocle de Strasbourg
Type Article
Language English
Date 2000
Journal Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Volume 18
Pages 320-356
Categories no categories
Author(s) Osborne, Catherine
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Few interested parties in the scholarly world of ancient philosophy will,  by this stage,  be unaware  of the story behind Alain  Martin and Oliver Primavesi’s publication.  It has been hot news, and the publication eagerly awaited, ever since the announcement in 1994 
that  a  papyrus  on  which  Alain  Martin  was  working,  under  the 
auspices of the Bibliothèque Nationale and University of Strasburg, had been  identified  as  containing verses of Empedocles, some  of them  almost  certainly  previously unknown.  Nevertheless—-since there seems no better opening for a reflection on the significance of this discovery and on the value of its elegant publication—1 propose 
to begin by summarizing what I take to be most important among 
the undisputed facts before proceeding to ask how they affect our understanding of Empedocles and of what we are doing with texts when we study the Presocratics. [Author's abstract]

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