Philodemus, on Property Management:

Name: Philodemus, on Property Management:
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ISBN: 9781589837652

ISBN-10: 1589837657

ISBN-13: 9781589837652

Edition: 2013

Authors: Voula Tsouna

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Philodemus was an important Epicurean philosopher active in southern Italy in the first century B.C.E. His treatise On Property Management, whose surviving part is completely translated here into English for the first time, focuses primarily on the vices or virtues involved in the acquisition and preservation of property and wealth. The extant remains of the work contain the most extensive and thorough treatment of property management found in any Hellenistic author. Philodemus criticizes rival writings by Xenophon and Theophrastus on the subject of oikonomia, or property management, and defends his own Epicurean views on the topic. More systematic and philosophical than rival approaches,…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 172
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction


The Contents of the Work



Traditional Approaches to Property Management: Xenophon and Theophrastus



Philodemus's Criticisms against Xenophon and Theophrastus



Philodemus's Approach to Property Management and the Debate between the Epicureans and the Cynics



The Epicurean Philosopher as a Property Manager



Philodemus on the Appropriate Sources of Income


The Papyrus


Editions and Contributions to the Text


Text and Translation


Notes


Bibliography


Index Verborum