Aëtiana V. / An edition of the reconstructed text of the Placita with a commentary and a collection of related texts. : Part 1 / / edited by Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia.

• Superior document: Philosophia Antiqua ; Volume 153/1-1
• TeilnehmendeR: Mansfeld, Jaap,; Runia, David T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; Volume 153/1-1
• Physical Description: 4 volúmenes :; ilustraciones ;; 25 cm.

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 (1997–2020): 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).

Table of Contents

|a I. The sources : The method and intellectual context of a doxographer -- II (in two parts). The Compendium -- III. Studies in the doxographical traditions of ancient philosophy -- IV. Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography -- V. An Edition of the reconstructed text of the Placita with a commentary and a collection of related texts. Part 1. General introduction ; Book 1. Text and commentary. Part 2. Book 2. Text and commentary. Book 3. Text and commentary. Part 3. Book 4. Text and commentary. Book 5. Text and commentary. Part 4. English translation ; Bibliography ; Indices.