Strato of Lampsacus : text, translation, and discussion
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Strato of Lampsacus : text, translation, and discussion
(Rutgers University studies in classical humanities, v. 16)
Transaction Publishers, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Volume 16 of Transaction's acclaimed Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities series, continues the work of Project Theophrastus on the School of Aristotle. The subject of this volume is Strato of Lampsacus in Mysia on the Hellespont. Strato was the third head of the Peripatetic School after Aristotle and Theophrastus. He succeeded the latter in c. 286 BCE and was in turn succeeded by Lyco of Troas in c. 268. Diogenes Laertius describes Strato as a distinguished person who became known as "the physicist," because more than anyone else he devoted himself to the careful study of nature.
Strato's concern with the physical world is well attested by the titles of his books: On the Void, On the Heaven, and On the Wind. His other books point to a keen interest in human physiology, animal life and diseases. But it would be a mistake to think that Strato was uninterested in other areas of philosophic concern. Indeed, he wrote works on logic, first principles, theology, politics and ethics. None of this work survives intact, but the reports that have come down to us reveal much of present-day interest.
Included is a new and complete edition of the ancient sources, together with a critical apparatus to the ancient texts, an English translation, and notes to the translation.
Table of Contents
Preface, Contributors, 1. Une introduction a Straton de Lampsaque, 2. Strato of Lampsacus: The Sources, Texts and Translations, 3. Sur deux passages diffi ciles de la Vie de Straton, 4. La physique de Straton de Lampsaque: Dans la lignee, 5. Strato on "Microvoid", 6. The Evidence for Strato in Hero of Alexandria's, 7. Elemental Qualities in Flux: A Reconstruction of Strato's, 8. Straton sur le poids: Fragments 49 et 50A, B, C, D Sharples, 9. Straton et la question du temps comme, nombre du movement, 10. Sensation et transport: Straton, fragments 64-65 Sharples, 11. Physicalism in Strato's Psychology, 12. Theophrastus and Strato on Animal Intelligence, 13. Strato's Aporiai on Plato's Phaedo, 14. The Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanics, 15. Nachleben, Index of Ancient Sources for Chapters 3-15
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