Aëtiana IV : : papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography / / edited by Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia.

• Superior document: Philosophia Antiqua, Volume 148
• Author: Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mansfeld, Jaap,; Runia, David T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 148.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (539 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; List of Abbreviations --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; Reconstructing and Editing the Placita --; Diels’ Whodunit: The Reliability of the Three Mentions of Aëtius in Theodoret /; Arius Didymus as a Doxographer of Stoicism: Some Observations /; Pythagorean Cosmology in Aëtius: An Aristotelian Fragment and the Doxographical Tradition /; Towards a Better Text of Ps.Plutarch’s Placita Philosophorum: Fresh Evidence from the Historia philosopha of Ps.Galen /; The Text of Stobaeus: The Manuscripts and Wachsmuth’s Edition /; Theodoret as a Source for the Aëtian Placita /; Aétius et le problème des sources de Théodoret : à propos de GAC 4.12 /; Archai Lists in Doxographical Sources /; Exploring the Placita --; Not Much Missing? Statistical Explorations of the Placita of Aëtius /; The Placita and Greek Philosophy --; Epicurus and the Placita /; Aëtius, Stoic Physics, and Zeno /; Galen and Doxography /; The Downside of Doxography /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004361464
• ISSN: 0079-1687
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia.

The articles collected here are based for the most part on papers read at the Colloquium “The Placita of Aëtius: Foundations for the Study of Ancient Philosophy,” held in Melbourne in December 2015. The Placita , a first century CE collection of systematically organised tenets in natural philosophy ranging from first principles to human physiology is incompletely extant in several later sources. Its laborious reconstruction and the identity of its author are discussed from various angles. The text of the treatise is further elucidated by a novel statistical exploration of what is extant and what is missing. Its relation to various currents in the history of Greek philosophy and its reliability are also examined in some detail.