Aëtiana V (4 Vols.)

An Edition of the Reconstructed Text of the Placita with a Commentary and a Collection of Related Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42838-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 153, 2318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4019 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

A new reconstruction and text of the Placita of Aëtius (ca. 50 CE), accompanied by a full commentary and an extensive collection of related texts. This compendium, arguably the most important doxographical text to survive from antiquity, is known through the intensive use made of it by authors in later antiquity and beyond. Covering the entire field of natural philosophy, it has long been mined as a source of information about ancient philosophers and their views. It now receives a thorough analysis as a remarkable work in its own right. This volume is the culmination of a five-volume set of studies on Aëtius (1996–2020): Aëtiana I (ISBN: 9789004105805, 1996), II (Parts 1&2; set ISBN 9789004172067; 2008), III (ISBN 9789004180413; 2009), IV (ISBN: 9789004361454, 2018), and V (Parts 1-4). It uses an innovative methodology to replace the seminal edition of Hermann Diels (1879).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansfeld, Jaap

Runia, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1

Preface

Sigla and Abbreviations

General Introduction

1 Aim and Scope of the Edition

2 The Compendium and Its Transmission

3 Reconstructing the Text

4 Introducing the Witnesses to the Text

5 The Proximate Tradition and Other Sources

6 The Edition’s Contents, Method and Layout

7 Appendices to the General Introduction

Book 1: The Principles of Nature: Text and Commentary

Introduction to Book 1

Title and Index

Proœmium

1 What Is ‘Nature’

2 In What Way Do a Principle and an Elements Differ

3 On Principles, What They Are

4 How the Cosmos Was Constituted

5 Whether the All Is Unique

6 From Where Did Human Beings Obtained a Conception of Gods

7 Who Is the Deity

8 On Demons and Heroes

9 On Matter

10 On the Idea

11 On Causes

12 On Bodies

13 On Minimal Bodies

14 On Shapes

15 On Colours

16 On Cutting of Bodies

17 On Mixing and Blending

18 On Void

19 On Place

20 On Space

21 On Time

22 On the Substance of Time

23 On Movement

24 On Coming to Be and Passing Away

25 On Necessity

26 On the Substance of Necessity

27 On Fate

28 On the Substance of Fate

29 On Chance

30 On Nature

Part 2

Sigla and Abbreviations

User’s Guide to the Edition and Commentary

Book 2: Cosmology: Text and Commentary

Book 3: Meteorology and the Earth: Text and Commentary

Part 3

Sigla and Abbreviations

User’s Guide to the Edition and Commentary

Book 4: Psychology: Text and Commentary

Book 5: Physiology: Text and Commentary

Part 4

English Translation of the Placita

Appendix to the Edition

Bibliography

Indices

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, including most recently his Studies in Early Greek Philosophy (Leiden 2018).

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