Aetiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer : The Sources: Vol 1

Jaap Mansfeld/ David T. Runia

ISBN 10: 9004105808 / ISBN 13: 9789004105805

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aetiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer : The Sources: Vol 1
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004105808
• ISBN 13: 9789004105805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.89 kilograms

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Synopsis

In 1879 the young German scholar Hermann Diels published his celebrated Doxographi Graeci, (in which the major doxographical works of antiquity are collected and analysed). Diels' results have been foundational for the study of ancient philosophy ever since.
In their ground-breaking study the authors focus on the doxographer Aėtius, whose work Diels reconstructed from various later sources. First they examine the antecedents of Diels' Aėtian hypothesis. Then Diels' theory and especially the philological techniques used in its formulation are subjected to detailed analysis. The remainder of the volume offers a fresh examination of the sources for our knowledge for Aėtius. Diels' theory is revised and improved at significant points.
Subsequent volumes will examine the contents and methods of the doxographer and his antecedents in earlier Greek philosophy.
No scholar concerned with the history of ancient philosophy can afford to ignore this study.

About the Author

David T. Runia, D.Litt, Free University Amsterdam, is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leiden and C.J. de Vogel Extraordinary Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. He has published extensively in the area of ancient philosophy, including Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato (Brill, 1986) and Philo and the Church Fathers (Brill, 1995).
Jaap Mansfeld, Ph.D. (1964) is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, its historiography and its reception, including Prolegomena (Brill, 1994).