Aëtiana IV: Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography

539 Pages·2018·3.236 MB·English

by  Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia

Aëtianaiv
Philosophia Antiqua
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C.J.Rowe(Durham)
K.A.Algra(Utrecht)
F.A.J.deHaas(Leiden)
J.Mansfeld(Utrecht)
D.T.Runia(Melbourne)
Ch.Wildberg(Princeton)
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Aëtiana iv
Papersof theMelbourneColloquium
onAncientDoxography
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JaapMansfeld
DavidT.Runia
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
ListofAbbreviations ix
NotesonContributors xi
Introduction 1
JaapMansfeldandDavidT.Runia
part 1
ReconstructingandEditingthePlacita
1 Diels’Whodunit:TheReliabilityoftheThreeMentionsofAëtiusin
Theodoret 17
Jean-BaptisteGourinat
2 AriusDidymusasaDoxographerofStoicism:SomeObservations 53
KeimpeAlgra
3 PythagoreanCosmologyinAëtius:AnAristotelianFragmentandthe
DoxographicalTradition 103
OliverPrimavesi
4 TowardsaBetterTextofPs.Plutarch’sPlacitaPhilosophorum:Fresh
EvidencefromtheHistoriaPhilosophaofPs.Galen 130
MareikeJas
5 TheTextofStobaeus:TheManuscriptsandWachsmuth’s
Edition 156
JamesR.Royse
6 TheodoretasaSourcefortheAëtianPlacita 174
JaapMansfeld
7 AétiusetleproblèmedessourcesdeThéodoret:àproposdeGAC
4.12 196
GérardJournée
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8 ArchaiListsinDoxographicalSources:Ps.Plutarch,Stobaeus,
Theodoret,andAnotherPs.Plutarch 225
JaapMansfeld
part 2
ExploringthePlacita
9 NotMuchMissing?StatisticalExplorationsofthePlacitaof
Aëtius 279
EdwardJeremiah
part 3
ThePlacitaandGreekPhilosophy
10 EpicurusandthePlacita 377
DavidT.Runia
11 Aëtius,StoicPhysics,andZeno 433
AnthonyA.Long
12 GalenandDoxography 453
TeunTieleman
13 TheDownsideofDoxography 473
RichardMcKirahan
Indexlocorum 503
Indexnominumetrerum 517
List of Figures andTables
Figures
4.1 Stemmaofthedirectmanuscripttraditionofps.Galen 153
4.2 Stemmaoftheancientdoxographicaltradition.Source:Mansfeld,J.and
Runia,D.T.,Aëtiana.TheMethodandIntellectualContextofaDoxographer,
Vol.i:TheSources,Leiden–NewYork–Köln1997,p.328. 154
4.3 StemmacodicumofStobaeus’Eclogaephysicae.Source:Mansfeld,J.and
Runia,D.T.,Aëtiana.TheMethodandIntellectualContextofaDoxographer,
Vol.i:TheSources,Leiden-NewYork-Köln1997,p.200. 155
9.1 Growthinname-labeltypeswithincreasingname-labeltokensbybook 309
9.2 Levelofchronologicalordering(tau)bychapter 314
9.3 Levelofchronologicalordering(tau)forchapterswithatleast1post300bce
labelvs.thosewithnone 318
9.4 Frequencyofcitationsfromdifferentcenturiesbybook 324
9.5 Philosophicalinfluencebycenturyasquantifiedby%ofacentury’scitations
occurringinmulti-labeldoxaiinwhichtheyaretheearliestsubscriber 340
9.6 Diaereticstructureofchapter2.2ontheshapeofthecosmos 343
9.7 Effectofaddinghypotheticalnewdoxaiondiaereticstructureandinformation
ofchapter2.2 343
9.8 Modelperformanceinfindingrealθ 366
9.9 Binneddistributionofpredictiveerrorsofθ from1000synthetictrials 367
p
Tables
9.1 Likelihoodandposteriorprobabilitiesfordifferentoriginalchaptersizesof
chapter1.18 289
9.2 Expectednumberofmissinglemmataforchapterswithmultiplewitnessesin
MansfeldandRunia’sreconstructionofAëtius,assuminguniformprior 291
9.3 Expectednumberofmissinglemmatawithdifferentgeometricpriors 291
9.4 Upperandlowerboundsforexpectednumberoflemmatamissingfrom
chapterswithmultiplewitnessesinMansfeldandRunia’sreconstructionof
Aëtius 292
9.5 Upperandlowerboundsforpredictednumberoftotalandmissinglemmatain
P-onlychaptersofMansfeldandRunia’sreconstructionofAëtius 294
9.6 Posteriorprobabilitiesfordifferentnumbersofdefinitionsintheoriginaltext
ofAëtius,assumingauniformpriordistributionandrandomselection 297
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9.7 P’sselectiveprobabilitiesforindividualname-labelsbasedonP&SorT
chaptersandextrapolatedmissingcitationsinPonlychapters 299
9.8 Ps.Plutarch’sdegreeofepitomisation(θ)bybookasestimatedfromP&SorT
chaptersinMR 301
9.9 Numberofindividualphilosopherswhoarecitedagivennumberoftimesin
thePlacita 302
9.10 Lower-boundestimatesofnewphilosophersthatwouldbecaughtwithmore
doxographicaltext 305
9.11 Predictednumberofname-labelspeciesifeachbookwereaslongasthewhole
work 307
9.12 Exampleofchronologicalorderingofphilosophersatdifferentdepths
(‘ranks’) 313
9.13 Averagechronologicalorderingofchaptersbybook 314
9.14 Averagechronologicalorderingofname-labelsequencesbybook 315
9.15 RateofellipticalpredicatesinthePlacitabybook 321
9.16 Rateofinitialandnon-initialellipticalpredicatesinthePlacitabybook 321
9.17 Rateofinitialellipticalpredicatesbyorderofdoxa 322
9.18 Top15citedphilosophersbybook 327
9.19 Breakdownbybookoflabelleddoxaiintosingle-labelledand
multi-labelled 329
9.20 Top15name-labelsbyphilosophicalbreadthasmeasuredbyaveragecitation
rankacrossbooks 333
9.21 TheAverageOverlapbetweentherankedcitationlistsofeachbook’s
name-labels 335
9.22 Philosophicaluniquenessasquantifiedbytheproportionofsingle-label
doxai 337
9.23 AffinitybetweenStoicsandothers 339
9.24 AverageandRMSEofmodel’spredictionofθ andθ 366
p s
9.25 MaximumlikelihoodfitsofFisher’snegativebinomialmodeltothefirstx
0
valuesofn 371
x
9.26 Maximumlikelihoodfitsofnegativebinomialmodeltoeachbookwithspecies
extrapolationtowholework 372
10.1 Listoftop20philosophersintermsofincludeddoxai 381
10.2 WitnessestotheEpicureandoxaiinthePlacita 382
10.3 EpicureandoxaipreservedinthewitnessestoP 383
List of Abbreviations
The list of abbreviations below does not include standard abbreviations for
classicalauthorsandtexts,forwhichtheusuallistsintheOxfordDictionaries
ofLiddell&ScottandLampe,inLewis&Short,andnowalsointheBrillDic-
tionaryofMontanaricanbeconsulted.Forjournalsseethe‘listedesjournaux
dépouillés’inL’AnnéePhilologique.
1 AbbreviationsSpecificallyRelatingtoAëtiusandHisTradition
AorAët. Aëtius
Ac theoriginallosttextofAëtius(seep.281)
Ach Achilles,Isagoge
DG H.Diels,DoxographiGraeci
E Eusebius,PraeparatioEvangelica
FP Stobaeanmss.FarnesinusandParisinus
G ps.Galen,Historiaphilosopha
MR reconstructedtextofAëtiusbyMansfeldandRunia(seep.281)
N Nemesius,Denaturahominis
P ps.Plutarch,Placitaphilosophorumandhistradition(EGTQetc.)
PB P,mss.ofByzantinetradition
PG PapudG
PQ PapudQ
PS (doxaiinboth)ps.PlutarchandStobaeus
QorQusṭā QusṭāibnLūqā
S Stobaeus,Eclogaephysicae
T Theodoret,Graecarumaffectionumcuratio
TS (doxaiinboth)TheodoretandStobaeus
2 OtherAbbreviations
DK H.Diels–W.Kranz,DieFragmentederVorsokratiker
D.L. DiogenesLaertius
E.-K. L.EdelsteinandI.G.Kidd,Posidonius:theFragments
FHS&G W.W.Fortenbaugh,P.M.Huby,R.W.Sharples,andD.Gutas,Theophras-
tusofEresus:SourcesforhisLife,Writings,ThoughtandInfluence
Lampe G.W.H.Lampe,APatristicGreekLexicon
x list of abbreviations
Lewis&Short C.T.LewisandS.Short,ALatinDictionary
L&S A.A.LongandD.N.Sedley,TheHellenisticPhilosophers
LSJ H.G.Liddell,R.ScottandH.S.Jones,AGreek-EnglishLexicon
MansfeldandRunia(M-R) J.MansfeldandD.T.Runia,Aëtiana
Montanari F.Montanari,TheBrillDictionaryofAncientGreek
PPF Poetarumphilosophorumfragmenta
SVF H.vonArnim,Stoicorumveterumfragmenta
Th Thales
FortheworksofGalenweusetheabbreviationsofR.J.Hankinson(ed.),Galen.
OnAntecedentCauses(Cambridge1998)282–288.