Aëtiana : the method and intellectual context of a doxographer

Author(s)

• Mansfeld, Jaap
• Runia, David T.

Bibliographic Information

Aëtiana : the method and intellectual context of a doxographer

by J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia

（Philosophia antiqua, v. 73, 114）

E.J. Brill, 1997-

• v. 1
• v. 2 : set
• v. 2, pt. 1
• v. 2, pt. 2

Note

Vol. 3は固有の標題があり別書誌: <BB00176008>

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents: v. 1. The sources -- v. 2. The compendium

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9789004105805

Description

In 1879 the young German scholar Hermann Diels published his celebrated Doxographi Graeci, (in which the major doxographical works of antiquity are collected and analysed). Diels' results have been foundational for the study of ancient philosophy ever since. In their ground-breaking study the authors focus on the doxographer Aetius, whose work Diels reconstructed from various later sources. First they examine the antecedents of Diels' Aetian hypothesis. Then Diels' theory and especially the philological techniques used in its formulation are subjected to detailed analysis. The remainder of the volume offers a fresh examination of the sources for our knowledge for Aetius. Diels' theory is revised and improved at significant points. Subsequent volumes will examine the contents and methods of the doxographer and his antecedents in earlier Greek philosophy. No scholar concerned with the history of ancient philosophy can afford to ignore this study.

Volume

v. 2 : set ISBN 9789004172067

Description

The theme of this study is the Doxography of problems in physics from the Presocratics to the early first century BCE attributed to Aetius. Part I focuses on the argument of the compendium as a whole, of its books, of its sequences of chapters, and of individual chapters, against the background of Peripatetic and Stoic methodology. Part II offers the first full reconstruction in a single unified text of Book II, which deals with the cosmos and the heavenly bodies. It is based on extensive analysis of the relevant witnesses and includes listings of numerous doxographical-dialectical parallels in other ancient writings. This new treatment of the evidence supersedes Diels' still dominant source-critical approach, and will prove indispensable for scholars in ancient philosophy.

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• NCID: BA29338512
• ISBN:
  • 9004105808
  • 9789004172067
  • 9789004173569
  • 9789004169876
• LCCN: 96042463
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B535.A254
  • DC20 : 180
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aetius Arabus
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Ancient -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00323670