Aëtiana V: An Edition of the Reconstructed Text of the Placita with a Commentary and a Collection of Related Texts, Part 2. Book 2 Text and Commentary, Book 3 Text and Commentary

Contents ‎Sigla and Abbreviations ‎User’s Guide to the Edition and Commentary ‎Aetius Placita Book 2 Cosmology: Text and Commentary ‎Introduction to Book 2 ‎Liber 2 Titulus et index ‎Liber 2 ⟨Proœmium⟩ ‎Liber 2 Caput 1 ‎Liber 2 Caput 2 ‎Liber 2 Caput 3 ‎Liber 2 Caput 4 ‎Liber 2 Caput 5 ‎Liber 2 Caput 5a ‎Liber 2 Caput 6 ‎Liber 2 Caput 7 ‎Liber 2 Caput 8 ‎Liber 2 Caput 9 ‎Liber 2 Caput 10 ‎Liber 2 Caput 11 ‎Liber 2 Caput 12 ‎Liber 2 Caput 13 ‎Liber 2 Caput 14 ‎Liber 2 Caput 15 ‎Liber 2 Caput 16 ‎Liber 2 Caput 17 ‎Liber 2 Caput 18 ‎Liber 2 Caput 19 ‎Liber 2 Caput 20 ‎Liber 2 Caput 21 ‎Liber 2 Caput 22 ‎Liber 2 Caput 23 ‎Liber 2 Caput 24 ‎Liber 2 Caput 25 ‎Liber 2 Caput 26 ‎Liber 2 Caput 27 ‎Liber 2 Caput 28 ‎Liber 2 Caput 29 ‎Liber 2 Caput 30 ‎Liber 2 Caput 31 ‎Liber 2 Caput 32 ‎Aetius Placita Book 3 Meteorology and the Earth: Text and Commentary ‎Introduction to Book 3 ‎Liber 3 Titulus et index ‎Liber 3 ⟨Proœmium⟩ ‎Liber 3 Caput 1 ‎Liber 3 Caput 2 ‎Liber 3 Caput 3 ‎Liber 3 Caput 4 ‎Liber 3 Caput 5 ‎Liber 3 Caput 5a (olim 18) ‎Liber 3 Caput 6 ‎Liber 3 Caput 7 ‎Liber 3 Caput 8 ‎Liber 3 Caput 9 ‎Liber 3 Caput 10 ‎Liber 3 Caput 11 ‎Liber 3 Caput 12 ‎Liber 3 Caput 13 ‎Liber 3 Caput 14 ‎Liber 3 Caput 15 ‎Liber 3 Caput 16 ‎Liber 3 Caput 17 "In 1879 the young German scholar Hermann Diels published his Doxographi Graeci in which the major doxographical works of antiquity are collected and analysed. Diels' results have been foundational for the study of ancient philosophy ever since." "In their ground-breaking study the authors focus on the doxographer Aetius, whose work Diels reconstructed from various later sources. First they examine the antecedents of Diel's Aetian hypothesis. Then Diel's theory and especially the philological techniques used in its formulation are subjected to detailed analysis. The remainder of the volume offers a fresh examination of the sources for our knowledge of Aetius. Diel's theory is revised and improved at significant points." --Book Jacket 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)