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Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance
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- Creator
- Michelle Zerba
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786613834645, 9781107024656, 1139531026, 110723204X, 1283522195, 1139526359, 1139175882, 1139540343, 110702465X, 113952755X, 1139532219, 1139528742
- OCLC
- ocn769430067, ocn804664901
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Farewell the tranquil mind": tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello -- Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it -- Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne