Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea: Text, Translation, and Discussion

ISBN-13: 9781138513549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 604 str.

Andrea Martano

Opis

This installment of the distinguished RUSCH series focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers of the fourth and third centuries BCE: namely, Chamaeleon and Praxiphanes, both of whom were associated with Theophrastus, Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic School

Spis treści

1: Praxiphanes of Mytilene (called ‘of Rhodes’): The Sources, Text and Translation; 2: Chamaeleon of Heraclea Pontica The Sources, Text and Translation; 3: The Peripats on Literature Interpretation, Use and Abuse 1; 4: Chamaeleon on Pleasure and Drunkenness; 5: Something to Do with Dionysus:Chamaeleon on the Origins of Tragedy; 6: Chamaeleon: Biography and Literature Peri tou deina?; 7: Aspects of the Epigraphical and Papyrological Tradition of Praxiphanes; 8: “Praxiphanes of Rhodes held the same opinions as Theophrastus” (Epiphanius, De fide 9.38); 9: The of Praxiphanes in the testimony of Diogenes Laertius *; 10: Thucydides adoxos and Praxiphanes; 11: Praxiphanes, Who Is He?

O autorze

Andrea Martano