Tag: Eminent

Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Free Download Tiziano Dorandi, "Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers "
English | ISBN: 1316642852 | 2017 | 956 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a three level apparatus. A lengthy introduction list all the manuscripts of Diogenes’ Lives and discusses its transmission in Late Antiquity and Medieval and Renaissance Periods. There is also a index of personal names, a bibliography and some notes which cover several features of the text and its interpretation. Tiziano Dorandi has used the Nachlaß of Peter Von der Mühll, for the first time in its entirety, to verify and consolidate material that he had previously gathered. This is by far the most detailed and elaborate edition which Diogenes’ Lives – a work unique in his kind, and which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy – has ever received.

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Eminent Persians The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Volume 1


Free Download Abbas Milani, "Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Volume 1"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0815609078 | PDF | pages: 616 | 35.5 mb
As the 25th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approached, Abbas Milani realized that very little, if any, attention had been given to the entire prerevolutionary generation. Political upheavals and a tradition of neglecting the history of past regimes have resulted in a cultural memory loss, erasing the contributions of a generation of individuals. Eminent Persians seeks to rectify that loss. Milani’s groundbreaking portrait of modern Iran reveals the country’s rich history through the lives of the men and women who forged it. Consisting of 150 profiles of the most important innovators in Iran between World War II and the Islamic Revolution, the book includes politicians, entrepreneurs, poets, artists, and thinkers who brought Iran into the modern era with brilliant success and sometimes terrible consequences. The biographies and essays weave a richly textured tapestry of lives, ideas, and events that reveals the true story of these decades in the life of a nation.

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