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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 (1996-2020): 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).
Contents
Part 1
Preface
Sigla and Abbreviations
General Introduction
1 Aim and Scope of the Edition
2 The Compendium and Its Transmission
3 Reconstructing the Text
4 Introducing the Witnesses to the Text
5 The Proximate Tradition and Other Sources
6 The Edition's Contents, Method and Layout
7 Appendices to the General Introduction
Book 1: The Principles of Nature: Text and Commentary
Introduction to Book 1
Title and Index
Proœmium
1 What Is 'Nature'
2 In What Way Do a Principle and an Elements Differ
3 On Principles, What They Are
4 How the Cosmos Was Constituted
5 Whether the All Is Unique
6 From Where Did Human Beings Obtained a Conception of Gods
7 Who Is the Deity
8 On Demons and Heroes
9 On Matter
10 On the Idea
11 On Causes
12 On Bodies
13 On Minimal Bodies
14 On Shapes
15 On Colours
16 On Cutting of Bodies
17 On Mixing and Blending
18 On Void
19 On Place
20 On Space
21 On Time
22 On the Substance of Time
23 On Movement
24 On Coming to Be and Passing Away
25 On Necessity
26 On the Substance of Necessity
27 On Fate
28 On the Substance of Fate
29 On Chance
30 On Nature
Part 2
Sigla and Abbreviations
User's 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
User's 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
