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OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY This page intentionally left blank OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY EDITOR: BRAD INWOOD VOLUME XXXVI summer 2009 (cid:1) (cid:1) GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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B1.O9 180.{5—dc.19 84–645022 AACR2 MARC-S TypesetbyJohnWas‹,Oxford PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–956810–9 ISBN978–0–19–956811–6(Pbk.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ADVISORY BOARD ProfessorJuliaAnnas,UniversityofArizona ProfessorJonathanBarnes ProfessorA.A.Long,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley ProfessorMarthaNussbaum,UniversityofChicago ProfessorDavidSedley,UniversityofCambridge Professor Richard Sorabji, King’s College, University of London, andWolfsonCollege,Oxford ProfessorGiselaStriker,HarvardUniversity ProfessorChristopherTaylor,CorpusChristiCollege,Oxford Contributions and books for review should be sent to the Edi- tor, Professor Brad Inwood, Department of Classics, University of Toronto, 125 Queen’s Park, Toronto m5s 2c7, Canada (e-mail brad.inwoodÄutoronto.ca). Contributors are asked to observe the ‘Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy’,printed at the end ofthis volume. Up-to-date contact details, the latest version of Notes for Con- tributors,andpublicationschedulescanbecheckedontheOxford StudiesinAncientPhilosophywebsite: www.oup.co.uk/philosophy/series/osap This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS EmpedoclesandhisAncient ReadersonDesireandPleasure 1 DAVID WOLFSDORF ParatragedyinPlato’s Gorgias 73 FRANCOV. TRIVIGNO AristophanesandtheSocrates ofthePhaedo 107 MARWANRASHED Socrates’ NewAitia: Causaland MetaphysicalExplanations inPlato’s Phaedo 137 RAVISHARMA TheRational/Non-RationalDistinction inPlato’s Republic 179 TODD STUART GANSON Movinglikea Stream:Protagoras’Heracliteanismin Plato’s Theaetetus 199 JOB VAN ECK Aristotle onSpeusippusonEudoxusonPleasure 249 JAMESWARREN TheQualitative Status ofthe Onkoiin Asclepiades’Theory ofMatter 283 DAVID LEITH Reading Platonic Writing: A Discussion of Christopher Rowe, PlatoandtheArt of PhilosophicalWriting 321 NICHOLASDENYER IndexLocorum 333 This page intentionally left blank EMPEDOCLES AND HIS ANCIENT READERS ON DESIRE AND PLEASURE DAVID WOLFSDORF A:WhatarePlato,Speusippus,andMenedemusupto?... What weighty thought, what line of argument are they now investigating?... B: I can tell you about these fellows for sure, since at the Panathenaea I saw a group of youngsters in the exercise- groundsoftheAcademyandheardthemspeaking,indescrib- able, astonishing! They were propounding definitions about natureandseparatingintocategoriestheformsoflifeofani- mals,thenatureoftrees,andtheclassesofvegetables.Andin particular, they wereinvestigating towhat genus one should assignthe pumpkin ...One of the boys saiditwas around vegetable; another that it was a grass; another that it was a tree. When a Sicilian doctor heard this, he dismissed them contemptuouslyastalkingnonsense. (epicrates)1 introduction recent decadeshavewitnessedconcertedre-examinationofthe ancient doxographical tradition.2 This paper contributes to this ãDavidWolfsdorf2009 Ithankananonymousreferee,RachanaKamtekar,andespeciallyBradInwoodfor veryhelpfulcommentsonpreviousdrafts.Iamgrateful toRobert Morrisonand BeatriceGruendlerforgeneroushelpwithArabic. 1 Fr. 10 Kock. 2 e.g. H.Baltussen, Theophrastus against the Presocratics and Plato: Peripatetic DialecticintheDesensibus[Theophrastus] (Leiden,2000);W.Burkert,L.Gemelli Marciano, E. Matelli, and L. Orelli (eds.), Fragmentsammlungen philosophischer TextederAntike/Le raccoltedeiframmenti difilosofiantichi (Go•ttingen, 1998); H. Daiber,Ae•tiusArabus[Arabus](Wiesbaden,1980);P.J.vanderEijk(ed.),Ancient HistoriesofMedicine:EssaysinMedicalDoxographyandHistoriographyinClassical Antiquity[Medical](Leiden,1999);T.Go•ransson,Albinus,Alcinous,AriusDidymus (Go•teborg,1995);D.E.Hahm,‘TheEthicalDoxographyofAriusDidymus’,inW. HaaseandH.Temporini(eds.),AufstiegundNiedergangderro•mischenWelt,II.36.4 (Berlin, 1990), 2935–3055; J.Mansfeld,‘Doxography andDialectic:TheSitzim
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