La Kompendienliteratur nella scuola di Epicuro: Forme, funzioni, contesto (Issn) (Italian Edition)

Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus’ acts of summary, thereby closing a long-standing scholarly lacuna. To this end, a review of existing research is followed by an analysis of the terminology used in antiquity to designate philosophical and scientific compendia. The Epicurean sources are then surveyed chronologically. In two further chapters, Epicurean compendia are discussed in the broader context of ancient philosophical summaries. Their patterns of genre are illuminated not only on the basis of Epicurus’ own remarks but through related texts, in which authors explain the principles undergirding their own ‘poetics of abridgement’. The concluding chapter advances an updated summary of Epicurus’ fragmentary "On Nature", interpreting his compendia not merely as sources for reconstructing the main treatise, but as texts with literary value in their own right. This monograph therefore provides the first complete presentation of Epicurean philosophical compendia, arguing for an interpretation of the rhetoric of philosophical texts while also being informed by metaliterary details afforded by other ancient sources. The volumes published in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies Premessa 7 Sommario 9 Abbreviazioni 15 1 Introduzione 19 2 Premesse teoriche 49 3 Questioni terminologiche 61 4 Epicuro 93 5 La scuola di Epicuro 155 6 La Kompendienliteratur filosofica antica 195 7 La praefatio epitomatoris e i caratteri del testo compendiario 229 8 Il trattato e il compendio 271 9 Conclusioni 349 Bibliografia 355 Index locorum 393 Index nominum antiquorum 411