Best translation of DRN

brett · January 14, 2018 at 10:23 AM

hi all,

Curious if there's a translation that folks like best of DRN?

Thanks,

Brett

Cassius · January 14, 2018 at 11:20 AM

Brett. Martin Ferguson Smith published by Hackett is the most current and scholarly. IMA of you want a poetic version Humphries "The Way Things Are" is best. The free one that is most likely to be literal and trustworthy is Munro. Bailey is free and more recent than Munro and probably easier to read but Bailey was no friend of Epicurus. Thats the state of affairs as I see it. I have pdfs of the free versions linked at www. http://Newepicurean.com/library

brett · January 14, 2018 at 11:26 AM

Thank you kind sir!

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