Äetiana : : the method and intellectual context of a doxographer. Volume III, Studies in the Doxographical Traditions of Ancient Philosophy/ / by J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia.

• Superior document: Philosophia antiqua, v. 114
• Author: Mansfeld, Jaap.
• TeilnehmendeR: Runia, David T.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua 118.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (664 p.)
• Notes: Description based on print version record.

Ancient doxography, particularly as distilled in the work on problems of physics by Aëtius, is a vital source for our knowledge of early Greek philosophy up to the first century BCE. But its purpose and method, and also its wider intellectual context, are by no means easy to understand. The present volume contains 19 essays written between 1989 and 2009 in which the authors grapple with various aspects of the doxographical tradition and its main representatives. The essays examine the origins of the doxographical method in the work of Aristotle and Theophrastus and also provide valuable insights into the works of other authors such as Epicurus, Chrysippus, Lucretius, Cicero, Philo of Alexandria and Seneca. The collection can be read as a companion collection to the two earlier volumes of Aëtiana published by the two authors in this series (1997, 2009).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia -- 1. Doxographical Studies, Quellenforschung, Tabular Presentation And Other Varieties Of Comparativism / J. Mansfeld -- 2. Physikai Doxai And Problêmata Physika In Philosophy And Rhetoric: From Aristotle To Aëtius (And Beyond) / J. Mansfeld -- 3. Xenophanes On The Moon: A Doxographicum In Aëtius / D.T. Runia -- 4. Chrysippus And The Placita / J. Mansfeld -- 5. Deconstructing Doxography / J. Mansfeld -- 6. Aëtius, Or What’s In A Name? / D.T. Runia -- 7. Physical Doxai In The Phaedo / J. Mansfeld -- 8. Aristote et la structure du De sensibus de Théophraste / J. Mansfeld -- 9. Epicurus Peripateticus / J. Mansfeld -- 10. Lucretius And Doxography / D.T. Runia -- 11. Philo And Hellenistic Doxography / D.T. Runia -- 12. Additional Fragments Of Arius Didymus On Physics / D.T. Runia -- 13. Critical Note: Empedocles And His Interpreters / J. Mansfeld -- 14. Atheists In Aëtius: Text, Translation And Comments On De Placitis 1.7.1–10 / D.T. Runia -- 15. Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, The Peripatetics, The Stoics, And Thales And His Followers \'On Causes\' / J. Mansfeld -- 16. Aëtius, Aristotle And Others On Coming-To-Be And Passing-Away / J. Mansfeld -- 17. Cosmic Distances: Aëtius 2.31 Diels And Some Related Texts / J. Mansfeld -- 18. From Milky Way To Halo. Aristotle’s Meteorologica, Aëtius, And Passages In Seneca And The Scholia On Aratus / J. Mansfeld -- 19. The Placita Ascribed To Doctors In Aëtius’ Doxography On Physics / D.T. Runia -- Additional Remarks / J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia -- Concordance / J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia -- Index Nominum et Rerum / J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia -- Index Locorum potiorum / J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia.