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Damascius Tweets (1)
Mar. 12th, 2011 04:57 pmAs some of you may know, I've been experimenting with Twitter (@EPButler). I've been asked to review Sarah Ahbel-Rappe's new translation of Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles for Philosophy in Review, which, first of all, is very nice of them: thanks guys!
So anyway, I decided that since it's only going to be a short review and there's bound to be an awful lot to say about this text, which is one of the last great works of late antique pagan philosophy, that I would Tweet on the book as I read it. Following a Twitter feed isn't for everyone, though, so I'm going to archive the Tweets here as I go. (Thanks to![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=2)
t3dy , by the way, from whom I've stolen the whole idea of using Twitter this way.)
I have a backlog to clear first, so here's the first three days of tweets. (Page references are to pages in Rappe's translation, and to the Greek text in Damascius: Traité des Premiers Principes, 3 vols., ed. & trans. L. G. Westerink & J. Combès, 2d edn. (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2002).)
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So anyway, I decided that since it's only going to be a short review and there's bound to be an awful lot to say about this text, which is one of the last great works of late antique pagan philosophy, that I would Tweet on the book as I read it. Following a Twitter feed isn't for everyone, though, so I'm going to archive the Tweets here as I go. (Thanks to
t3dy , by the way, from whom I've stolen the whole idea of using Twitter this way.)I have a backlog to clear first, so here's the first three days of tweets. (Page references are to pages in Rappe's translation, and to the Greek text in Damascius: Traité des Premiers Principes, 3 vols., ed. & trans. L. G. Westerink & J. Combès, 2d edn. (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2002).)
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