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Aëtiana V (4 vols.)
An Edition of the Reconstructed Text of the Placita with a Commentary and a Collection of Related Texts
Series: - Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 153
A new reconstruction and text of the Placita of Aëtius (ca. 50 CE), accompanied by a full commentary and an extensive collection of related texts. This compendium, arguably the most important doxographical text to survive from antiquity, is known through the intensive use made of it by authors in later antiquity and beyond. Covering the entire field of natural philosophy, it has long been mined as a source of information about ancient philosophers and their views. It now receives a thorough analysis as a remarkable work in its own right. This volume is the culmination of a five-volume set of studies on Aëtius (1996â2020): Aëtiana I (ISBN: 9789004105805, 1996), II (Parts 1&2; set ISBN 9789004172067; 2008), III (ISBN 9789004180413; 2009), IV (ISBN: 9789004361454, 2018), and V (Parts 1-4). It uses an innovative methodology to replace the seminal edition of Hermann Diels (1879).
Jaap Mansfeld is Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in the University of Utrecht. He has published numerous papers and several monographs on ancient philosophy, including most recently his Studies in Early Greek Philosophy (Leiden 2018).
David T. Runia is Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on the thought of Philo of Alexandria.
David T. Runia is Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on the thought of Philo of Alexandria.
"Aëtiana V offers to the scholarly world a new edition of the remains of a lost work that is extremely important for the study of ancient philosophy. It took over 140 years for Dielsâ work on this text and its intellectual context to be redone. Mansfeld and Runia have produced a dramatically superior version, one that will last, I predict, even longer than Dielsâ work did. In the bargain they have given us the tools to understand better the nature of philosophical activity and works in the crucial but under-documented centuries between Aristotle and the first century CE." - Brad Inwood, Yale University, in: The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism XXXIII (2021)
Part 1
Preface
Sigla and Abbreviations
General Introduction
â1âAim and Scope of the Edition
â2âThe Compendium and Its Transmission
â3âReconstructing the Text
â4âIntroducing the Witnesses to the Text
â5âThe Proximate Tradition and Other Sources
â6âThe Editionâs Contents, Method and Layout
â7âAppendices to the General Introduction
Book 1: The Principles of Nature: Text and Commentary
âIntroduction to Book 1
âTitle and Index
âProÅmium
â1âWhat Is âNatureâ
â2âIn What Way Do a Principle and an Elements Differ
â3âOn Principles, What They Are
â4âHow the Cosmos Was Constituted
â5âWhether the All Is Unique
â6âFrom Where Did Human Beings Obtained a Conception of Gods
â7âWho Is the Deity
â8âOn Demons and Heroes
â9âOn Matter
â10âOn the Idea
â11âOn Causes
â12âOn Bodies
â13âOn Minimal Bodies
â14âOn Shapes
â15âOn Colours
â16âOn Cutting of Bodies
â17âOn Mixing and Blending
â18âOn Void
â19âOn Place
â20âOn Space
â21âOn Time
â22âOn the Substance of Time
â23âOn Movement
â24âOn Coming to Be and Passing Away
â25âOn Necessity
â26âOn the Substance of Necessity
â27âOn Fate
â28âOn the Substance of Fate
â29âOn Chance
â30âOn Nature
Part 2
Sigla and Abbreviations
Userâs Guide to the Edition and Commentary
Book 2: Cosmology: Text and Commentary
Book 3: Meteorology and the Earth: Text and Commentary
Part 3
Sigla and Abbreviations
Userâs Guide to the Edition and Commentary
Book 4: Psychology: Text and Commentary
Book 5: Physiology: Text and Commentary
Part 4
English Translation of the Placita
Appendix to the Edition
Bibliography
Indices
Readers from the Classics, Philosophy and Theology will be interested in this work which is fundamental to the study of ancient and patristic philosophy.