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The doxographical handbook summarising the opinions of the Greek philosophers on nature, the source behind much of what later antiquity knew of them.
The Edition
- Original language
- Greek
- Translated by
- Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia
Publication
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Series volume
- 555
- Date published
- 2023-12-12
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 624 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780674997592
Reference
- Read online
- Read Here
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- PREFACE
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Compendium
- 1.1 The Lost Original and Its Author
- 1.2 Reconstruction of the Original Text
- 1.3 Title, Structure, and Contents
- 1.4 Chapters and Lemmata: The Role of Dialectic
- 1.5 Origins and Anterior Traditions
- 1.6 Purpose, Contemporary Context, and Later Reception
- 2. History and Reconstruction of the Text
- 2.1 The Witnesses to the Text
- 2.1.1 Ps.-Plutarch and His Tradition
- 2.1.2 Stobaeus
- 2.1.3 Theodoret and Other Witnesses
- 2.2 Previous Editions
- 2.2.1 Diels’ Doxographi graeci
- 2.2.2 Mansfeld and Runia Aëtiana V
- 2.1 The Witnesses to the Text
- 3. Guide to the Present Edition lix
- 3.1 Introductions to Books I–V
- 3.2 Text
- 3.3 Translation
- 3.4 Schematic Overview of the Tradition of the Placita
- 1. The Compendium
- ABBREVIATIONS
- GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- AETIUS, PLACITA
- BOOK I: FIRST PRINCIPLES
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
- BOOK II: COSMOLOGY
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
- BOOK III: METEOROLOGY AND THE EARTH
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
- BOOK IV: PSYCHOLOGY
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
- BOOK V: PHYSIOLOGY
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
- BOOK I: FIRST PRINCIPLES
- APPENDIX I: LIST OF CHANGES TO THE TEXT IN THIS EDITION
- APPENDIX II: ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE TEXT
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- INDEX OF NAME-LABELS AND OTHER NAMES