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- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One “Farewell the Tranquil Mind”
- Part Two Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare’s As You Like It
- Part Three Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
- Bibliography
- Index
Part One - “Farewell the Tranquil Mind”
Tragic Doubt in Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and Shakespeare’s Othello
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One “Farewell the Tranquil Mind”
- Part Two Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare’s As You Like It
- Part Three Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance , pp. 25 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012