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Kykloi : Cyclic Theories In Ancient Greece, Hubert Wayne Nelson Jan 1980

Kykloi : Cyclic Theories In Ancient Greece, Hubert Wayne Nelson

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It is both curious and frustrating, given the perennial popularity of the cycle concept in Ancient Greece, that there has not been a single book written devoted to the wide variety of philosophic and historical conceptions bound up with that loosely descriptive designation. This study was originally undertaken to satisfy my own curiosity on the subject. Herein I intend to survey the entire history of the cycle concept in general from about 700 B.C. to the time of Polybius in the second-century A.D. It is intended to be a descriptive as well as an analytical report.