Herman Alexander Diels (1848 1922) published Doxographi Graeci in 1879. In many ways this work established the critical discipline of doxography - the editing, cataloguing, and analysing of extracts of extant classical texts that contain references to the ideas and arguments of lost authors and schools. In Doxographi Graeci Diels analyses passages from the extant work of authors such as Plutarch, Arius Didymus, Diogenes Laertius, Ps-Plutarch, Hippolytus, Ps-Galen, Stobaeus, Theodoret and Eusebius and uses them to uncover information about the Presocratic philosophers and schools whose written...

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Das sechsbandige, in Form von Hexametern verfasste Lehrgedicht gibt die Naturphilosophie Epikurs wieder. Lukrez wollte damit eine Philosophie vermitteln, die dem Menschen Gemutsruhe und Gelassenheit gibt und ihm die Furcht vor dem Tode und den Gottern nimmt, die aus der Unkenntnis des Menschen uber seine Stellung in der Welt, uber die Natur und das Wesen entspringt und folglich durch Aufklarung uberwunden werden muss. Es ist gepragt von der materialistischen Atomlehre der griechischen Antike und geht davon aus, dass die Gotter weder in der Lage noch willens sind, sich in das Leben der...