Pseudo-Zeno: Anonymous Philosophical Treatise

273 Pages·2000·14.81 MB·English

by  Michael E. Stone

PSEUDO-ZENO
ANONYMOUS PHILOSOPHICAL
TREATISE
PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA
A SERIES OF STUDIES
ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
FOUNDED BY J. H. WASZINK AND W.J. VERDENIUS
EDITED BY
J. MANSFELD, D.T. RUNIA
J. C. M. VAN WIND EN
VOLUME LXXXIII
M.E. STONE AND M.E. SHIRINIAN
PSEUDO-ZENO
ANONYMOUS PHILOSOPHICAL
TREATISE
PSEUDO-ZENO
ANONYMOUS PHILOSOPHICAL
TREATISE
BY
M.E. STONE AND M.E. SHIRINIAN
TRANSLATED WITH THE COLLABORATION
OF
J. MANSFELD AND D.T. RUNIA
BRILL
LEIDEN · BOSTON · KOLN
2000
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Pseudo-Zeno : Anonymous philosophical treatise I by M.E. Stone
and M.E. Shirinian. Trans!. with the collaboration of J. Mansfeld and
D.T. Runia.- Leiden; Boston; Ki:iln :Brill
(Philosophia antiqua ; Vol. 83)
ISBN 90-04--11524--2
ISSN 0079-1687
ISBN 90 04 11524 2
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CONTENTS
Preface........................................................................................... x1
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
Introduction.................................................................................. 3
1. The Title and Author .......................................................... 3
2. History of Research.............................................................. 5
3. Armenian Translations of Philosophical Writings............. 7
4. The Character ofpseudo-Zeno's Anonymous Philoso-
phical Treatise.................................................................... 15
a. Christian Character . ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .............. ... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 16
b. Translated from Greek................................................. 18
c. Style................................................................................. 19
d. Hellenizing Morphological and Syntactic Features.... 20
e. Structure and Content.................................................. 21
f. Structure of the Text according to the Manuscripts.... 23
5. Sources Utilized by pseudo-Zeno........................................ 25
6. Date....................................................................................... 27
7. Significance of the Translation........................................... 28
8. The Manuscripts and the Edition....................................... 28
The Contents of the Manuscripts...................................... 28
Manuscript A....................................................................... 30
Manuscript B....................................................................... 32
Manuscript C ...................................................................... 33
Manuscript D ................................ ...................................... 34
Relationship between the Manuscripts ............................. 34
9. The Text and Translation................................................... 44
Bibliographical Abbreviations ...................................................... 45
Sigla and Technical Abbreviations............................................... 47
Vlll CONTENTS
PART Two
TEXT AND CRITICAL APPARATUSES
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4.0.0 BU'l,UCJ.U ... ............................................................................. 75
5.0.0 BU'l,UCJ.U ... ............................................................................. 80
Textual Commentary.................................................................... 93
PART THREE
TRANSLATION
0.0.0 OF ZENO THE PHILOSOPHER............................................... 127
1.0.0 On Useful Kinds.................................................................. 127
1.1.0 On Positions (8£crw;) .......................................................... 127
1.2.0 On Ranks ('ta~ttc;) ............................................................... 129
1.3.0 On Orbits (KUKAot) ............................................................. 129
1.4.0 On Measures (JlE'tpa) .......................................................... 130
1.5.0 On Powers (OuvaJlttc;) ........................................................ 132
1.6.0 On Influences (EvEpyt'iat) .................................................. 135
2.0.0 On the Practical Realm to Which Has been added On
The Perfection of Speech................................................... 139
2.1.0 On the Economic................................................................ 139
2.2.0 On The Moral...................................................................... 139
2.3.0 On The Political.................................................................. 140
2.4.0 On Mimetic Representation (Jllflllcrtc;) .............................. 141
2.5.0 On Content.......................................................................... 141
3.0.0 On . . . ................................................................................. 142
3.1.0 On Definitions and Divisions which They Added about
Nature.................................................................................. 142
3.2.0 On Proof and Logic ............................................................ 146
3.3.0 On Fallacy and Analysis....................................................... 147
4.0.0 On... ................................................................................. 147
4.1.0 On Inquiry (Ota~ll'ttKov) which They Added from Theory 147
4.2.0 On Inseparable Definition and the Category of Existing
Things.................................................................................. 148
4.3.0 On Distinction ................................ ..................................... 152
CONTENTS ix
5.0.0 On ... .................................................................................... 153
5.1.0 On....................................................................................... 153
5.2.0 On Knowledge of Perlect Expression ................................ 155
5.3.0 On Time: a separate section ............................................... 156
5.4.0 On Theology of Beginning and of End:
a separate section ................................................................ 158
5.5.0 On Nature (1t1::p1 qr6creco~): a separate section.................... 159
5.6.0 About Essential: a separate section.................................... 160
5.7.0 On The Creating and Eternally Forth-Flowing Tetrad,
which is of Theological Movement and Matter: a separate
section.................................................................................. 161
5.8.0 On the Void: a separate section......................................... 162
5.9.0 On the Infinite .................................................................... 162
List of Words in the Translation.................................................. 165
Index of Ancient Sources cited in the Notes to the Translation 181
PART FouR
INDEXES AND TOOLS
Concordance of the Armenian Text ofPseudo-Zeno................. 185
Trilingual Lists............................................................................... 241
1. By Armenian......................................................................... 241
2. By Greek............................................................................... 245
3. By English............................................................................. 249
Neologisms in Pseudo-Zeno ......................................................... 253
Main Types of Variants ................................................................. 255

PREFACE
This book is the product of a team of scholars, working during the
academic year 1997-1998 at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced
Studies in Wassenaar. We wish to express our appreciation to NIAS
and its staff who provided us with ideal working conditions. The
members of the group resident at NIAS were M.E. Stone andJJ.S.
Weitenberg (directors), Th.M. van Lint, G. Muradyan, D.T. Runia,
M.E. Shirinian and J.W. Wesselius. In addition,]. Mansfeld worked
with the group, though he was not resident. Under a grant from
NWO, Dr. Peter Robinson assisted the group in computer applic
ations.
In the 1980's M.E. Stone and]. Mansfeld began jointly to prepare
an English translation of a Greek philosophical treatise which had
survived only in Armenian. Stone knew Armenian but not ancient
philosophy and Mansfeld's skills were complementary. Although a
brief report on this project was published, 1 in fact Stone and
Mansfeld only managed to prepare a preliminary translation of about
a quarter of the work, basing themselves on the text then available.
Their work, however, provided a basis for the formation of the group
at NIAS in 1997-1998.
The project, as it developed at NIAS, became the preparation of a
new edition, using the computer program Collate written by Peter
Robinson. This program enabled us to produce a full edition, and
the materials prepared for Collate also serve as the basis of an
electronic edition of the work. Collate outputs the edition in an
electronic form. Its results are included in this book as the text and
two apparatuses and, in addition, the electronic edition will contain
transcriptions and scans of the individual manuscripts, a full KWIC
concordance of the book, Arevsatyan's Russian translation and some
further resources. The book also contains a translation into English
with annotations, a number of indexes, a concordance of the
Armenian text, and a detailed word-list of the English translation.
1 M.E. Stone and J. Mansfeld, "Compte rendu preliminaire sur la traduction
a
anglaise de la composition De Natura attribuee Zeno stoicus," Newsletter of
Association Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes, 19 October 1993 (1993) 4-6.