Aëtiana : : the method and intellectual context of a doxographer. Vol. 1, Sources / / by J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia.

• Superior document: Philosophia antiqua, v. 73
• Author: Mansfeld, Jaap.
• TeilnehmendeR: Runia, David T.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English; Ancient Greek
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua 73.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; THE AËTIUS HYPOTHESIS BEFORE AND UP TO DIELS /; THE THEORY OF DIELS’ DOXOGRAPHI GRAECI /; THE SOURCES FOR AËTIUS: PS.PLUTARCH AND HIS TRADITION /; THE SOURCES FOR AËTIUS: JOHANNES STOBAEUS /; THE SOURCES FOR AËTIUS: THEODORET /; FURTHER WITNESSES TO AËTIUS /; WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT AËTIUS /; BIBLIOGRAPHY /; INDEX OF ANCIENT NAMES /; PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA: A SERIES OF STUDIES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004320989
• ISSN: 0079-1687
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia.

In 1879 the young German scholar Hermann Diels published his celebrated Doxographi Graeci , (in which the major doxographical works of antiquity are collected and analysed). Diels' results have been foundational for the study of ancient philosophy ever since. In their ground-breaking study the authors focus on the doxographer Aëtius, whose work Diels reconstructed from various later sources. First they examine the antecedents of Diels' Aëtian hypothesis. Then Diels' theory and especially the philological techniques used in its formulation are subjected to detailed analysis. The remainder of the volume offers a fresh examination of the sources for our knowledge for Aëtius. Diels' theory is revised and improved at significant points. Subsequent volumes will examine the contents and methods of the doxographer and his antecedents in earlier Greek philosophy. No scholar concerned with the history of ancient philosophy can afford to ignore this study.