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Article: Sextus Empiricus: Against the Grammarians. (book review)
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- The Philosophical Review
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- July 1, 2001
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Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by D. L. BLANK. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. lvi, 436.
This book is the recent addition to the Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers series, and its greatest significance lies in its being the sole commentary on Against the Grammarians. It also provides the only English alternative to Bury's 1949 translation in the Loeb edition. As such, it is a clear and readable translation, although, of course, there is no Greek text provided (the norm for this series).
Against the Grammarians is the first book of Sextus's six-book work Adversus Mathematicos, which contains his general critique of liberal ...