Aëtiana IV

Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36145-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

The articles collected here are based for the most part on papers read at the Colloquium “The Placita of Aëtius: Foundations for the Study of Ancient Philosophy,” held in Melbourne in December 2015. The Placita, a first century CE collection of systematically organised tenets in natural philosophy ranging from first principles to human physiology is incompletely extant in several later sources. Its laborious reconstruction and the identity of its author are discussed from various angles. The text of the treatise is further elucidated by a novel statistical exploration of what is extant and what is missing. Its relation to various currents in the history of Greek philosophy and its reliability are also examined in some detail.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansfeld, Jaap

Runia, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Jaap Mansfeld and David T. Runia

Reconstructing and Editing the Placita

1 Diels’ Whodunit: The Reliability of the Three Mentions of Aëtius in Theodoret
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat

2 Arius Didymus as a Doxographer of Stoicism: Some Observations
Keimpe Algra

3 Pythagorean Cosmology in Aëtius: An Aristotelian Fragment and the Doxographical Tradition
Oliver Primavesi

4 Towards a Better Text of Ps.Plutarch’s Placita Philosophorum: Fresh Evidence from the Historia Philosopha of Ps.Galen
Mareike Jas

5 The Text of Stobaeus: The Manuscripts and Wachsmuth’s Edition
James R. Royse

6 Theodoret as a Source for the Aëtian Placita
Jaap Mansfeld

7 Aétius et le problème des sources de Théodoret: à propos de GAC 4.12
Gérard Journée

8 Archai Lists in Doxographical Sources: Ps.Plutarch, Stobaeus, Theodoret, and Another Ps.Plutarch
Jaap Mansfeld

Exploring the Placita

9 Not Much Missing? Statistical Explorations of the Placita of Aëtius
Edward Jeremiah

The Placita and Greek Philosophy

10 Epicurus and the Placita
David T. Runia

11 Aëtius, Stoic Physics, and Zeno
Anthony A. Long

12 Galen and Doxography
Teun Tieleman

13 The Downside of Doxography
Richard McKirahan

Index locorum
Index nominum et rerum

Über Autor(innen)

Jaap Mansfeld is emeritus professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in the University of Utrecht. He has published numerous papers and several monographs on ancient philosophy, among which (together with David T. Runia) the three previous volumes of Aëtiana.

David T. Runia is Director of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, and also Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has written widely on ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on the thought of Philo of Alexandria.