by Philodemus · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782251005409
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«Sur la musique» is the critical edition of Book IV of Philodemus of Gadara's treatise, published by Les Belles Lettres in 2007 in two volumes, with Greek text and facing French translation.
The volume reconstructs the debate of Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher, on the value and effects of music in human life, based on the fragments preserved in the Herculaneum papyrus P.Herc. 1497. It includes the Greek text with French translation, preliminary material, philological notes, and a CD-ROM with images of the papyrus for specialist consultation.
The work belongs to the Collection des universités de France, série grecque (Budé collection, number 457), with text established, translated, and annotated by Daniel Delattre. Published in paperback, with 530 pages.
Aimed at classical philologists, scholars of Epicureanism, and researchers of the philosophy and music of Greco-Roman antiquity.
