Title | Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1997 |
Published in | Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome |
Pages | 110-129 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Sedley, David N. |
Editor(s) | Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Michael J. |
Translator(s) |
In this paper I shall be considering the emerge, or rather re-emerge, of Platonic commentary around the end of the Hellenistic age. That is the period which forms the essential background to our chief surviving specimens of the genre, the great fifth-century Platonic commentaries of Proclus. Specifically, I intend to examine why Platonic philosophy came to such a large extent to take the form of commentary, and how the resources of the commentary format were deployed for the task of establishing, preserving, and exploiting Plato's philosophical authority. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/5EKsDxZh3Wkt1SQ |
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Title | Roman Aristotle |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1997 |
Published in | Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome |
Pages | 1-69 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Barnes, Jonathan |
Editor(s) | Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Miriam |
Translator(s) |
hen Theophrastus died, his library, which included the library of Aristotle, was carried off to the Troad. His successors found nothing much to read; the Lyceum sank into a decline; and Peripatetic ideas had little influence on the course of Hellenistic philosophy. It was only with the rediscovery of the library that Aristotelianism revived— and it revived in Italy. For the library' went from the Troad to Athens— whence, as part of Sulla’s war-booty, to Rome. There Andronicus of Rhodes produced the ‘Roman edition’ of the corpus Aristotelicum. It was the first complete and systematic version of Aristotle’s works, the first publication in their full form of the technical treatises, the first genu inely critical edition of the text. Andronicus’ Roman edition caused a sensation. It revitalised the languishing Peripatetics. It set off an explosion of Aristotelian studies. It laid the foundation for all subse quent editions of Aristotle’s works, including our modern texts. When we read .Aristotle we should pour a libation to Andronicus— and to Sulla.That story is the main subject of the following pages. It is familiar enough; my argument will be laborious; I have nothing new to say about it; and my general conclusions are dispiritingly sceptical. But recent scholarship on the topic has taken to the bottle of phantasy and stumbled drunkenly from one dogmatism to the next. Another look at the pertinent texts may be for given— and in any event the story is a peach. [p. 1] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Dn4JOW7VW7YHbB5 |
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Title | Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1997 |
Published in | Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome |
Pages | 110-129 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Sedley, David N. |
Editor(s) | Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Michael J. |
Translator(s) |
In this paper I shall be considering the emerge, or rather re-emerge, of Platonic commentary around the end of the Hellenistic age. That is the period which forms the essential background to our chief surviving specimens of the genre, the great fifth-century Platonic commentaries of Proclus. Specifically, I intend to examine why Platonic philosophy came to such a large extent to take the form of commentary, and how the resources of the commentary format were deployed for the task of establishing, preserving, and exploiting Plato's philosophical authority. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/5EKsDxZh3Wkt1SQ |
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Title | Roman Aristotle |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1997 |
Published in | Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome |
Pages | 1-69 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | , Barnes, Jonathan |
Editor(s) | Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Miriam |
Translator(s) |
hen Theophrastus died, his library, which included the library of Aristotle, was carried off to the Troad. His successors found nothing much to read; the Lyceum sank into a decline; and Peripatetic ideas had little influence on the course of Hellenistic philosophy. It was only with the rediscovery of the library that Aristotelianism revived— and it revived in Italy. For the library' went from the Troad to Athens— whence, as part of Sulla’s war-booty, to Rome. There Andronicus of Rhodes produced the ‘Roman edition’ of the corpus Aristotelicum. It was the first complete and systematic version of Aristotle’s works, the first publication in their full form of the technical treatises, the first genu inely critical edition of the text. Andronicus’ Roman edition caused a sensation. It revitalised the languishing Peripatetics. It set off an explosion of Aristotelian studies. It laid the foundation for all subse quent editions of Aristotle’s works, including our modern texts. When we read .Aristotle we should pour a libation to Andronicus— and to Sulla.That story is the main subject of the following pages. It is familiar enough; my argument will be laborious; I have nothing new to say about it; and my general conclusions are dispiritingly sceptical. But recent scholarship on the topic has taken to the bottle of phantasy and stumbled drunkenly from one dogmatism to the next. Another look at the pertinent texts may be for given— and in any event the story is a peach. [p. 1] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Dn4JOW7VW7YHbB5 |
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