Arius Didymus on peripatetic ethics, household management, and politics : text, translation, and discussion
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Arius Didymus on peripatetic ethics, household management, and politics : text, translation, and discussion
(Rutgers University studies in classical humanities, 20)
Routledge, 2018
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Contains essays by different authors on Arius Didymus. Also contains parallel text in Greek and English of fragments attributed to Arius Didymus, preserved in Stobaeus's Eclogues. Translation of Arius Didymus by Georgia Tsouni
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume features a unique epitome (original summation) of Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is often attributed to Arius Didymus who composed a survey of Peripatetic thought on three closely related areas: ethics, household management, and politics. The quality of the epitome, which draws not only on the surviving treatises of Aristotle, but also on works by later Peripatetics, is excellent.
In recent years the epitome has attracted increased attention as an important document for the understanding of Hellenistic philosophy. This new edition of the Greek text is much needed; the most recent edition dates from 1884 and is seriously faulty. This translation, provided by Georgia Tsouni, is based on the oldest and best manuscripts and takes account of recent discussions of difficult passages. In addition, an English translation appears opposite the Greek text on facing pages. The text-translation is followed by nine essays, which are written for a wide audience-not only philosophers and classicists, but also scholars interested in politics and social order.
The essays also consider issues of a more philological nature: Who in fact was the author of the epitome? Is Theophrastus an important source? In discussing political matters, is the author intending to defend the practice of philosophy in Augustan Rome? Was there a second epitome, perhaps with a different slant, that has been lost?
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
1 Didymus' Epitome of Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics: An Edition with Translation
Georgia Tsouni
2 The Quest for an Author
David E. Hahm
3 Moral Virtue in Didymus' Epitome of Peripatetic Ethics
William W. Fortenbaugh
4 Intrinsic Worth of Others in the Peripatetic Epitome, Doxography C
Stephen A. White
5 Two Conceptions of "Primary Acts of Virtue" in Doxography C
Jan Szaif
6 Bodily and External Goods in Relation to Happiness
Myrto Hatzimichali
7 Didymus on Types of Life
William W. Fortenbaugh
8 Didymus' Epitome of the Economic and Political Topic
Eckart Schutrumpf
9 Von Arnim, Didymus and Augustus: Three Related Notes on Doxography C
Peter L. P. Simpson
10 Seneca's Peripatetics: Epistulae Morales 92 and the Stobaean Doxography C
Margaret R. Graver
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