Prolegomena : : questions to be settled before the study of an author, or a text / / by Jaap Mansfeld.

• Superior document: Philosophia antiqua, v. 61
• Author: Mansfeld, Jaap.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden [The Netherlands] ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 246 pages)

Prolegomena deals with the introductory and hermeneutic sections of a wide range of commentaries and studies on philosophical, scientific, biblical and other ancient authors. Special attention is given to unclearness as a stimulus for interpretation. New light is shed on the Life of an author (e.g. Plotinus') as a preliminary to the study of his works, and on the part played by the idea that life and doctrine should agree with each other. The results obtained by the study of the practices as well as the avowed principles of ancient scholars and commentators among other things further the understanding of the interrelated philosophical, literary, medical and patristic exegetical traditions, of the book of Diogenes Laërtius, of Galen's autobibliographies and of Thrasyllus' Before the Reading of the Dialogues of Plato .

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION: TA ΠPO THΣ ANAΓNΩΣEΩΣ -- SCHEMATA ISAGOGICA FROM ORIGEN TO STEPHANUS -- PRELIMINARY ISSUES IN THRASYLLUS, ALBINUS, AND DIOGENES LAËRTIUS ON PLATO -- PORPHYRY’S INTRODUCTION TO PLOTINUS -- GALEN’S AUTOBIBLIOGRAPHIES AND HIPPOCRATIC COMMENTARIES -- GALEN ON EXEGESIS, AND ON TEACHERS AND PUPILS -- CICERONIAN LIGHT ON THE AIDS TO INTERPRETATION, AND ON DIOGENES LAËRTIUS -- COMPLEMENTARY NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM POTIORUM -- INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM.