Pythagorean Cosmology in AÃ«tius: An Aristotelian Fragment and the Doxographical Tradition

Oliver Primavesi

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Chapter 3 Pythagorean Cosmology in AÃ«tius: An Aristotelian Fragment and the Doxographical Tradition

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004361461_005

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V.Â Rose in his 3rd edition of the fragments of Aristotle (1886) showed bad method when, in fr.Â 201, he persisted in citing the text of Stobaeus only, ignoring the advances made by Diels in his Doxographi Graeci (1879). The transmitted text in both Stobaeus and ps.Plutarch is analysed, taking into account the different methods used by the two authors. This allows the establishment of the text in AÃ«tius, who rightly records Aristotleâs report on Pythagorean cosmology, in contrast to the epitomator ps.Plutarch who presents the doxa as Aristotleâs own view. But the second part of ps.Plutarchâs text, correctly preserved by ps.Galen but omitted by Stobaeus, does go back to AÃ«tius. Further investigation of Stobaeusâ text confirms that its second half is a compilation of excerptsâmost probably by Arius Didymusâfrom Aristotleâs Physics BookÂ 4 dealing with void, place and the infinite. Detailed analysis of this compilation reveals subtle modifications of the original Aristotelian account. It is further proposed to combine the quotation from Aristotleâs On the philosophy of Pythagoras in the earlier part of Stobaeusâ text with the final phrase of the Aristotle lemma in ps.Plutarch, thus providing a new AÃ«tian text of Aristotle fr.Â 201 R³.

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AÃ«tiana IV

Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography

Series:Â Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 148

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004361461

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 05 Mar 2018

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  - Ancient Philosophy
  - Greek & Latin Literature
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