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Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy Studies in Philo of Alexandria Editedby Francesca Calabi and Robert Berchman EditorialBoard Kevin Corrigan (Emory University) Louis H. Feldman (Yeshiva University, New York) Mireille Hadas-Lebel (La Sorbonne, Paris) Carlos Lévy (La Sorbonne, Paris) Maren Niehoff (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Tessa Rajak (University of Reading) Roberto Radice (Università Cattolica, Milano) Esther Starobinski-Safran (Université de Genève) Lucio Troiani (Università di Pavia) VOLUME5 Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy Editedby Francesca Alesse LEIDEN•BOSTON 2008 Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData PhiloofAlexandriaandpost-Aristotelianphilosophy/editedbyFrancescaAlesse. p.cm.--(StudiesinphiloofAlexandria;5) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-16748-3(hardback:alk.paper)1.Philo,ofAlexandria.I.Alesse, Francesca.II.Title.III.Series. B689.Z7P452008 181’.06–dc22 2008014096 ISSN 1543-995x ISBN 9789004167483 Copyright2008byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishers,MartinusNijhoffPublishersandVSP. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. printedinthenetherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..................................................... vii Introduction............................................................ 1 Francesca Alesse PhiloandHellenisticDoxography.................................... 13 DavidT.Runia Philoandpost-AristotelianPeripatetics............................... 55 RobertW.Sharples MosesAgainsttheEgyptian:theanti-Epicurean PolemicinPhilo.. 75 GrazianoRanocchia LaconversionduscepticismechezPhilond’Alexandrie.............103 CarlosLévy PhiloonStoicPhysics .................................................121 AnthonyA.Long PhiloandStoicEthics.ReflectionsontheIdeaofFreedom.........141 RobertoRadice PhiloofAlexandria onStoicandPlatonistPsycho-Physiology: TheSocraticHigherGround ......................................169 GretchenReydams-Schils PhiloofAlexandria andtheOriginsoftheStoicΠΡ(cid:4)ΠΑΘΕΙΑΙ...197 Margaret Graver PhiloandHellenisticPlatonism.......................................223 JohnDillon TowardsTranscendence:PhiloandtheRenewal ofPlatonismin theEarlyImperial Age .............................................233 MauroBonazzi Bibliography ...........................................................253 IndexLocorum ........................................................265 IndexofAncientNames ..............................................287 IndexofModernNames..............................................289 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The publication of this volume has benefited from a contribution from the Goren-Goldstein Foundation, Switzerland, and the University of Milan.ForthisIwishtoexpressmydeepestgratitude toProf.EnricoI. RambaldiFeldman. My thanks also go to Prof. Ronald Polansky, Editor of Ancient Phi- losophy, who authorised the reprint of the article by Prof. Gretchen Reydams-Schils; to Prof. Verity Harte, Editor of Phronesis, who autho- risedthereprint ofthearticlebyProf.Margaret Graver. My heart-felt gratitude goes naturally to all those who have sup- ported and encouraged this project with their advice and suggestions, such as Prof. Francesca Calabi, Prof. Michael Erler, Prof. Tullio Gre- gory,Prof.CarlosLévy. Finally, I am grateful to the friends and colleagues at the “Isti- tuto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, for their help in preparing this volume, and for the spirit of collaboration which they have all demonstrated: Michele Alessandrelli, M. Cristina Dalfino, Delfina Giovannozzi, Annarita Liburdi, Diana Quarantotto,LucaSimeoni. INTRODUCTION Francesca Alesse Preliminary remarks This volume is the result of a project concerning the place held by the philosophy of the Hellenistic age, or post-Aristotelian philosophy— from Theophrastus to Eudorus of Alexandria—in Philo’s philosophi- cal and exegetical works. This appears as part of a much broader and extremely complex issue, that of the relationship between Philo’s cor- pus and Greek philosophical traditions. It inevitably touches another important area of Philonic studies, that of the role played by this out- standingrepresentative oftheJewish intellectualcommunityin Alexan- dria in favouring the encounter between Greek philosophy and Scrip- tureandexploitingtheGreekphilosophicaltraditionsasinstrumentsof Biblicalinterpretation.1 Interest in the relation of Philo to Hellenistic or post-Aristotelian philosophicalschoolsandtraditionsisbynomeansrecent,asisdemon- strated by the seminal works of, for instance, Hans von Arnim, Paul Wendland, Emile Bréhier and Max Pohlenz;2 indeed, the presence of 1 Just to mention the most recent and comprehensive studies on Philo’s acquain- tancewithGreekculturalandphilosophicaltraditionsandhisuseofthemasexegetical instruments:V.Nikiprowetzky,LeCommentairedel’ÉcriturechezPhilond’Alexandrie:soncar- actèreetsaportée.Observationsphilologiques (Leiden1977);R.Goulet,LaphilosophiedeMoïse: essai de reconstruction d’un commentaire philosophique préphilonien du Pentateuque (Paris 1987); R.Radice,PlatonismoecreazionismoinFilonediAlessandria(Milan1989);D.T.Runia,Philo ofAlexandriaandtheTimaeusofPlato(Leiden1986);C.Lévy(ed.),Philond’Alexandrieetle langagedelaphilosophie.ActesducolloqueinternationalorganiséparleCentred’études surlaphilosophiehellénistiqueetromainedel’UniversitédeParisXII–ValdeMarne (Créteil, Fontenay, Paris 26–28 octobre 1995), (Turnhout 1998). See also The Ancestral Philosophy.HellenisticPhilosophyintheSecondTempleJudaism,essaysofDavidWinston,ed. by G.E. Sterling (Providence 2001), chapter 4, and G.E. Sterling, “The Jewish Philos- ophy:thePresenceofHellenisticPhilosophyinJewishExegesisintheSecondTemple Period”,inC.Backos(ed.),AncientJudaisminitsHellenisticContext(Leiden–Boston2005), 131–153. 2 H. von Arnim, Quellenstudien zu Philo von Alexandreia, II: Philo und Aenesidem, Berlin 1888; P. Wendland, Philos Schrift über die Vorsehung (Berlin 1892); Philo und die kynisch-

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The essays collected in this volume focus on the role played by the philosophy of the Hellenistic, or post-Aristotelian age (from the school of the successors of Aristotle, Theophrastus and other Peripatetics, Epicurus, Sceptical Academy and Stoicism, to neo-Pythagorenism and the schools of Antiochu
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