The price ("a drachma at most'') at which a copy of Anaxagoras' Σνγγραφή is sold, in Plat. Apol. 26d-e, is problematic in its real meaning. The difficulty of fixing an overall picture is determined by the fragmentation of the arguments in dozens of commentaries ad loc. First of all, it is necessary to take into account variables (essential for a correct interpretation of this price), such as the cost of the papyrus, especially in epigraphical evidence relating to different moments of (...) Greek economy, and alternative forms of κτῆσις βιβλίων. (shrink)

A creative attitude based on an “open mind approach” toward art, on a stylistic salience of images and on a continuative research of sense are the main features of Nespolo’s art. Many of his artworks are related to de Chirico’s artistic search. Many others are pervaded by a conceptualist approach to art. Nespolo’s formalist and visionary attitude becomes decisive in the 80s, the period in which he explores the effects of postmodernism in art. A topic in particular dominates his pictorial (...) production: that of museum, conceived as depository of forms. (shrink)

Excerpt from Caroli Lachmanni in T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libros Commentarius Iterum Editus Itaque recensendi mnnere ita functus sum nt quod Gumque bonum et verum esset'aut in utroque aut in alter utro codice id sine ullo dubitationis indicio exhiberem ver suum autem erdinem eum quo essent a veteribus librariis scripti, numeris appositis indicarem: emendafionem his re bus contineri arbitratus sum primum ut versus a. Librariis traiecti in suum locum reducerentur; quod ubi evenit nu meri sese naturali ordine (...) excipere non petuerunt: deinde nt ipsa versuum vocabula ubi vel perissent vel depravata es sent, quantum fieri posset, reciperarentur, ita tamen nt sin gula ad codicum fidemscripta cum singnlis commentariernm particulis praefigerentur, tum in imis paginis carminum enn merarentur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)