Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer, Volume I: The Sources

406 Pages·1997·33.893 MB·English

by  Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia

AETIANA
VOLUME ONE
THE SOURCES
PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA
A SERIES OF STUDIES
ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
FOUNDED BY]. H. W ASZINK AND W.J. VERDENIUS
EDITED BY
J. MANSFELD, D.T. RUNIA
J.C.M. VAN WINDEN
VOLUME LXXlli
]. MANSFELD AND D. T. RUNIA
AETIANA
VOLUME ONE
THE SOURCES
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AETIANA
THE METHOD AND INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT
OF A DOXOGRAPHER
VOLUME ONE
THE SOURCES
BY
]. MANSFELD D. T. RUNIA
AND
EJ. BRILL
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1997
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Mansfeld, Jaap.
Aetiana : the method and intellectual context of a doxographer I
by J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia.
p. em.- (Philosophia antiqua, ISSN 0079-1687 ; v. 73)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: v. l. The sources.
ISBN 9004105808 (v. 1 : cloth : alk. paper)
l. Aetius Arabus. 2. Philosophy, Ancient-Historiography.
I. Runia, David T. II. Title. III. Series.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FIGURES and lLLUSTRA TIONS ....................................................... IX
SIGLA ................................................................................................. xi
lNTRonucTioN................................................................................ xiii
CHAPTER ONE. The Aetius hypothesis before and up to Diels I
1. Preliminaries .............. ................................................... ................. 1
2. Diels' hypothesis in the making................................................. 6
3. Bude, Rota and Gessner................................................................ 21
4. Mercuriale and Patrizi ................................................................... 26
5. Possevino, Jonsius, Bacon, Fabricius and Brucker................... 32
6. Xylander, Corsini and Beck........................................................ 37
7. Canter, Heeren, R(uhnke)n and Tennemann ........................ 42
8. Meineke and Volkmann.............................................................. 49
CHAPTER TWO. The theory of Diels' Doxographi Graeci ............. 64
1. The authority of Diels ................................................................... 64
2. Diels' theory in outline................................................................. 73
3. Is Diels' theory on the right track?............................................... 84
4. General reflections on Diels' theory, its aims and methods:
stemmatology and synoptical presentation.............................. 87
5. Farewell to Diels: brief remarks on our own methods............ 106
6. A crucial distinction: sources of, sources for, witnesses to...... 108
7. A practical problem: how to refer to the Aetian Placita ........... 109
APPENDIX: Tabular presentation in antiquity and in nineteenth-
century classical philology.......................................................... 111
CHAPTER THREE. The sources for Aetius: Ps.Plutarch and his
tradition........................................................................................ 121
1. The work, its author and its date ...................... .................. .......... 121
2. A complex textual tradition........................................................... 126
3. The papyri ........................................................................................ 126
4. Eusebius ............................................................................................ 130
5. Ps.Galen ............................................................................................ 141
6. Qusta Ibn Liiqa ................................................................................ 152
7. Other witnesses............................................................................... 161
8. Conclusion on the indirect witnesses........................................ 173
9. The problem ofps.Plutarch's text................................................. 173
10. Ps.Plutarch's method.................................................................... 182