Theophrastus Of Eresus Commentary Volume 8

Author : William Fortenbaugh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
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Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047415190

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Theophrastus of Eresus Commentary Volume 8 by William Fortenbaugh Pdf

This volume is a commentary on the rhetorical and poetic texts collected in the second volume of Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought, and Influence. The commentary begins with a discussion of the ancient and medieval sources from which the texts are drawn. Next comes discussion of the titles of Theophrastus' works on rhetoric and poetics. After that each text is discussed individually. In sum, Theophrastus is shown to be an important, though sometimes seriously misunderstood, contributor to the development of Greek rhetorical and poetic theory. The commentary concludes with a bibliography of the modern scholary literature followed by several indices: important Greek and Latin words, titles of works (non-Theophrastean as well as Theophrastean), persons and places, and subjects discussed in earlier sections of the commentary.

Author : William W. Fortenbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004101748

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Theophrastus of Eresus by William W. Fortenbaugh Pdf

Author : William Fortenbaugh,Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004194236

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Theophrastus of Eresus Commentary Volume 6.1 by William Fortenbaugh,Dimitri Gutas Pdf

Commenting on recently collected sources for Theophrastus' ethical views, this work relates Theophrastean doctrine to that of Aristotle and the rival Stoics. The focus is on topics like virtue and happiness, manners and moral virtues, innate character and the relation of animals to humans.

Author : William W. Fortenbaugh,Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004268760

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Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 9.2 by William W. Fortenbaugh,Dimitri Gutas Pdf

This volume concerns Theophrastus, Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. The focus is twofold. First, it deals with discoveries and inventions, both useful and pleasurable, and more generally changes that transformed the way people live. Theophrastus wrote a work entitled On Discoveries, which may be regarded as cultural history. Second, the volume focuses on proverbs: familiar sayings containing useful truths that have been observed by earlier generations and passed on in a form that is concise and attractive. Theophrastus wrote a work entitled On Proverbs and made use of proverbs in his writings on ethics, rhetoric and humor. He recognized their importance in educating the young and maintaining the traditions of an earlier age.

Author : Robert Sharples
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004320864

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Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 5: Sources on Biology (Human Physiology, Living Creatures, Botany: Texts 328-435) by Robert Sharples Pdf

This is the first to appear of the projected volumes of commentary to accompany the texts and translations on Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others ("FHSG" (Philosophia Antiqua 54); Leiden, Brill, 1992). It covers the ancient secondary evidence for Theophrastus' views on physiology, zoology and botany; the transmission, reliability and doctrinal content of the reports in the text-and-translation volume are all discussed in detail, and general overviews are provided. The commentary is an indispensable accompaniment to the text-and-translation volume, and the two together will be an important resource for students of the history of the biological sciences in antiquity.

Author : Pamela M. Huby,Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004152984

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Theophrastus of Eresus: Logic [texts 68-136] by Pamela M. Huby,Dimitri Gutas Pdf

In the present volume, the focus is on natural philosophy, apart from the study of living things. Topics covered include the principles of scientific enquiry, place, time, motion, the heavens, the sublunary world, meteorology and the study of materials.

Author : Oliver Hellmann,David Mirhady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351499958

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Phaenias of Eresus by Oliver Hellmann,David Mirhady Pdf

"Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the ""Peripatos"" or ""Lyceum,"" and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical themes and details of famous Athenians; to botanical and zoological issues; and even entertaining, ""novelistic"" stories and strange reports (Mirabilia).This volume includes new scholarship, with translation of source texts for the writings, thought, and influence of Phaenias (whose name also appears as ""Phanias""and ""Phainias""), as well as essays that take up various areas of his life and work in greater detail.The chapters of Phaenias of Eresus cover a remarkable range of intellectual areas, which is in keeping with the varied interests of the early Peripatetics in general. Phaenias is thus an ideal model for exploring issues of specialization and differentiation in research in the early Peripatos."

Author : Han Baltussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317514954

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The Peripatetics by Han Baltussen Pdf

The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or whether there was a fundamental tension between philosophical creativity and the notions of core teachings and canonisation. The book discusses the major philosophical preoccupations of the Peripatetics, interactions with Hellenistic schools of thought, and the shift in focus among Greek philosophers in a changing political landscape. It is the first book of its kind to provide a survey of this important philosophical tradition.

Author : Robbert Maarten van den Berg,Robbert Maarten Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004163799

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Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context by Robbert Maarten van den Berg,Robbert Maarten Berg Pdf

This book explores the various views on language and its relation to philosophy in the Platonic tradition by examening the reception of Plato's Cratylus in antiquity in general, and the commentary of the Neoplatonist Proclus in particular.

Author : Aldo Brancacci,Pierre-Marie Morel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004151604

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Democritus by Aldo Brancacci,Pierre-Marie Morel Pdf

This volume gathers specific investigations dealing with some of the main topics of the research on Democritus: the catalogue of works, music, literary criticism, technics, zoology and the relation to medicine, physics, epistemology, posterity.

Author : Theophrastus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004155930

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On Weather Signs by Theophrastus Pdf

This text and commentary is the first to take account of all the manuscripts and to place the work in its historical and scientific context, as well as the first to describe its manuscript tradition.

Author : David C. Mirhady
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004156685

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Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric by David C. Mirhady Pdf

Each paper explores the influences on different parts of Peripatetic rhetoric, its discussion of character, emotion, reason, and style, its relationships with other texts, including those of Theodectes and the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and its relationship with the oratory of the 4th century BC.

Author : Robert Mayhew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192571533

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Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems by Robert Mayhew Pdf

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - comments in the margins of the medieval manuscripts of the Homeric epics, mostly coming from lost commentaries on these epics - though the series of studies presented here puts forward a persuasive case that other sources have been overlooked. These studies focus on various aspects of the Homeric Problems and are grouped into three parts. The first deals with preliminary issues: the relationship of this lost work to the Homeric scholarship that came before it, and to Aristotle's comments on Homeric scholarship in his extant Poetics; the evidence concerning the possible titles of this work; and a neglected early edition of the fragments. Following on from this, the second part attempts to expand our knowledge of the Homeric Problems through an examination in context of quotations from (or allusions to) Homer in Aristotle's extant works, and specifically in the History of Animals, the Rhetoric, and Poetics 21, while Part Three consists of four studies on select (and in most cases disregarded) fragments. Collectively the chapters support the conclusion that Aristotle in the Homeric Problems aimed to defend Homer against his critics, but not slavishly and without employing allegorical interpretation; within the context of a renewed interest in Aristotle's lost works, the volume as a whole brings much needed illumination to a virtually unknown ancient work involving not one but two giants of the classical world.

Author : Sonia Pertsinidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351997812

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Theophrastus' Characters by Sonia Pertsinidis Pdf

This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for thirty-five years. Pertsinidis' lively, original and scholarly monograph introduces Theophrastus as a Greek philosopher. It also outlines the remarkable influence of the Characters as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy, ethics and rhetoric.

Author : Riccardo Chiaradonna,Franco Trabattoni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047427261

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Physics and Philosophy of Nature in Greek Neoplatonism by Riccardo Chiaradonna,Franco Trabattoni Pdf

The articles in this volume concentrate on Neoplatonic philosophy of nature from Plotinus to Simplicius, and on its main conceptual features and its relation to the previous philosophical and scientific traditions. The papers were presented at a conference sponsored by the European Science Foundation in Castelvecchio Pascoli in June 2006. This volume makes an important contribution to the understanding of Greek Neoplatonism and its historical significance.