By Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, Malcolm Schofield
Organised through topic, it contains sections on good judgment, epistemology, physics and metaphysics, ethics and politics and it offers the full of life debate among faculties which characterized the Hellenistic age. Written by means of top specialists within the box, the background is meant to be a resource of reference for all scholars of old philosophy, of classical antiquity and of philosophy of later classes.
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Her. 14, Cic. De Or. 139–40, Quint. Inst. 5–6; cf. Leeman and Pinkster 1981, 237–8. 75 Leo 1901, 104–8, Dihle 1970, 104–7, Arrighetti 1987, 141–8, 164–7, Momigliano 1993, 70. Canfora 1993 is a fine pastiche of a dubious ancient biography. 76 See further Arrighetti 1994, Mansfeld 1994b, 177–91. on sects 21 The literature On Sects, a Hellenistic genre, dealt with the doctrines of the important philosophical and medical schools. Lost works with this title are attributed to various people by Diogenes Laertius, and have been used by him at one or more removes.
G. ] Rhet. Her. 14, Cic. De Or. 139–40, Quint. Inst. 5–6; cf. Leeman and Pinkster 1981, 237–8. 75 Leo 1901, 104–8, Dihle 1970, 104–7, Arrighetti 1987, 141–8, 164–7, Momigliano 1993, 70. Canfora 1993 is a fine pastiche of a dubious ancient biography. 76 See further Arrighetti 1994, Mansfeld 1994b, 177–91. on sects 21 The literature On Sects, a Hellenistic genre, dealt with the doctrines of the important philosophical and medical schools. Lost works with this title are attributed to various people by Diogenes Laertius, and have been used by him at one or more removes.
26 Several passages in Greek from Prov. ii have been preserved by Eusebius. 27 Mansfeld 1988a, Runia 1990, Runia 1993; in general Ridings 1995. 10 sources as one does not forget that these works have been composed from a particular point of view. The date of the remains of a more general work, or works, by a certain Arius Didymus remains uncertain;28 it may be as late as the third century ad. A systematic treatment of Stoic and of Peripatetic ethics which with some confidence may be attributed to him has been preserved in Stobaeus.