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1961 · Berlin
by Schmidt, Ernst Günther
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1961. stiff paper wrapper. 4to. stiff paper wrapper. (v), 50 pages. Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Jahrgang 1960, Nr. 2. In this publication, issued by the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , the author discusses a philosophical essay from late antiquity written by "Zenon" (whom some scholars refer to as pseudo-Zenon to distinguish him from some better known individuals). The Zenon essay is significant for its extensive use of pagan philosophical sources. The text which survives only in Armenian was first published in the mid-twentieth century, in Armenian and in a Russian translation. Although (truncated)