Posidonius : Volume I : The Fragments

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. 0521080460 . Some dampstains to spine and rear board and to endpapers. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; liv, 336 pages. Brown cloth boars with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 138m. A collection of the fragments of Posidonius. The fragments are in the original Greek and Latin (mostly Greek). The Introduction is in English. "The only previous edition of the fragments, published in 1810, is incomplete and now very much out of date, and the present edition will be indispensale for specialist in Posidonian studies." - from dust-jacket blurb. "Ludwig Edelstein announced in 1936, in his justly famous article, 'The Philosophical System of Posidonius.' that he was preparing a collection of the fragments of Posidonius. Although he spent a great deal of time and effort on this project in the following years, and was recognised as a leading authority on Posidonius, the work sadly remained unfinished at his death in 1965." - page xi. "Posidonius of Apamei and Rhodes was one of the most important and interesting figures of the first half of the first century B.C. Not only was he the leading Stoic philosopher of his time, with original approaches in all three conventional philosophical departments of physics, ethics and logic, but his thinking and writing embraced also mathematics, the scinces, geography and history in a remarkable aetiological attempt to survey and explain the whole field of the human intellect and the universe in which it found itself." - page xiii. Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, #13. .