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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).
Price: $910.00
Pages: 2318
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philosophia Antiqua
Publication Date:
02 July 2020
ISBN: 9789004428386
Format: Hardcover
"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 Diels’ 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 Diels’ 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)
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.