Author 134
Le problème des lemmes du De caelo dans la traduction latine du commentaire In De Caelo de Simplicius, 1992
By: Bossier, Fernand, Hamesse, Jacqueline (Ed.)
Title Le problème des lemmes du De caelo dans la traduction latine du commentaire In De Caelo de Simplicius
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 1992
Published in Les problèmes posés par l'édition critique des textes anciens et médiévaux
Pages 361-397
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bossier, Fernand
Editor(s) Hamesse, Jacqueline
Translator(s)

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’, 1992
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1992
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, J. O.() ,
This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries.

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Metacommentary, 1992
By: Barnes, Jonathan, Annas, Julia (Ed.)
Title Metacommentary
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1992
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Pages 267-281
Categories no categories
Author(s) Barnes, Jonathan
Editor(s) Annas, Julia
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, pp. 281 f.]: Simplicius is in the scholarly news;27 the Neoplatonists are making a comeback; and the Greek commentaries on Aristotle are submitting to renewed scholarly scrutiny and enjoying some little publicity.28 Students of Greek philosophy have always referred to Simplicius and his fellows; but they have usually read a page here and a paragraph there, and their primary interest in the works has been in their value as sources for earlier thought (for the Presocratics, for the Stoics). This approach to a text has its dangers; and it is an unqualified good that Simplicius’ works are now being studied hard for themselves and as wholes. The French metacommentary may be regarded, and should be welcomed, as a part of this enterprise. But I am, I suspect, not alone in hoping that the next nine fascicles may prove a touch more sprightly and a touch more lithe.

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Where was Simplicius?, 1992
By: Foulkes, Paul
Title Where was Simplicius?
Type Article
Language English
Date 1992
Journal The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Volume 112
Pages 143
Categories no categories
Author(s) Foulkes, Paul
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In Simplicius: sa vie, son oeuvre, sa survie (Berlin 1987, reviewed in JHS cx [1990] 244-45), the editor, Mme I. Hadot, in the first part of the biographical introduction, cites Agathias Hist. ii 31, 4. This is usually taken to show that the Neoplatonists, who had fled to the Persian court when Justinian closed down the Academy in 529, went back to Athens after 532. That view, she holds, rests on a misreading of the text (…δεῖν ἐκείνους τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐς τὰ σφέτερα ἤθη κατιόντας βιοτεύειν ἀδεῶς τὸ λοιπὸν ὲφ᾿ ἐαυτ–οῖσ…). However, she herself misconstrues ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτ–οῖς as ‘selon leur choix’': that is, on returning from exile to their own accustomed places, these men should henceforth live without fear as they might choose. To yield that version, the Greek would have to be καθ᾿ ἑαυτοὺς. The actual expression means ‘amongst themselves’: they might philosophise, but not in public. That a touch of private heterodoxy amongst the learned few is harmless if it does not stir up the ignorant many was well understood, indeed explicitly so later, in Islam and mediaeval Christianity.

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'Place' in Context: On Theophrastus Fr. 21 et 22 Wimmer, 1992
By: Algra, Keimpe A., Fortenbaugh, William W. (Ed.), Gutas, Dimitri (Ed.)
Title 'Place' in Context: On Theophrastus Fr. 21 et 22 Wimmer
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1992
Published in Theophrastus. His Psychological, Doxographical and Scientific Writings
Pages 141-165
Categories no categories
Author(s) Algra, Keimpe A.
Editor(s) Fortenbaugh, William W. , Gutas, Dimitri
Translator(s)
The aim of the present study is to determine what position should be assigned to Theophrastus’ ideas about place in general, and to fr. 22 in particular, in the Rezeptionsgeschichte of Aristotelian physics. To this purpose we shall concentrate on the three main items already referred to, viz. (1) the interpretation of fr. 22 in relation to fr. 21 and to Aristotle’s theory of topos to be found in the Physics, (2) the problem of Theophrastus’ commitment, and (3) the question as to how our source Simplicius interprets, or misinterprets, Theophrastus’ position. [p. 142]

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Physikai doxai and Problēmata physika from Aristotle to Aëtius (and Beyond), 1992
By: Mansfeld, Jaap, Fortenbaugh, William W. (Ed.), Gutas, Dimitri (Ed.)
Title Physikai doxai and Problēmata physika from Aristotle to Aëtius (and Beyond)
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1992
Published in Theophrastus. His Psychological, Doxographical and Scientific Writings
Pages 63-111
Categories no categories
Author(s) Mansfeld, Jaap
Editor(s) Fortenbaugh, William W. , Gutas, Dimitri
Translator(s)
In Theophrastus’ bibliography at Diog. Laërt. V 48 the title is given in the genitive, Φυσικών δοξών, which means that the intended nominative may have been either Φυσικών δόξαι (The Tenets of the Philosophers of Nature) or Φυσικαί δόξαι (The Tenets in Natural Philosophy). Scholars have been divided over this issue; although the majority have followed Usener and Diels, there are a number of noteworthy exceptions.8 What we have here is by no means a minor problem, because the precise meaning of the title is influential in determining our impression of what the book was about. In the present paper, I shall try to demonstrate, in various ways, that the book-title has to be Φυσικάι δόξαι. [p. 64]

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","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/110233700","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}},{"id":1527,"entry_id":1011,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":379,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":2,"role_name":"editor"},"free_name":"Gutas, Dimitri","free_first_name":"Dimitri","free_last_name":"Gutas","norm_person":{"id":379,"first_name":"Dimitri","last_name":"Gutas","full_name":"Gutas, Dimitri","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/122946243","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"Physikai doxai and Probl\u0113mata physika from Aristotle to A\u00ebtius (and Beyond)","main_title":{"title":"Physikai doxai and Probl\u0113mata physika from Aristotle to A\u00ebtius (and Beyond)"},"abstract":"In Theophrastus\u2019 bibliography at Diog. La\u00ebrt. 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Epictetus, "Encheiridion" 27, 1992
By: Boter, Gerard
Title Epictetus, "Encheiridion" 27
Type Article
Language English
Date 1992
Journal Mnemosyne, Fourth Series
Volume 45
Issue 4
Pages 473-481
Categories no categories
Author(s) Boter, Gerard
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Note on Epictetus, "Encheiridion" 27

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 1992
By: Annas, Julia (Ed.)
Title Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1992
Publication Place Oxford
Publisher Clarendon Press
Volume X
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Annas, Julia
Translator(s)
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. In this supplementary volume, a number of renowned scholars of Plato reflect upon their interpretative methods. Topics covered include the use of ancient authorities in interpreting Plato's dialogues, Plato's literary and rhetorical style, his arguments and characters, and his use of the dialogue form. The collection is not intended as a comprehensive survey of methodological approaches; rather it offers a number of different perspectives and clearly articulated interpretations by leading scholars in the field. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, 1992
By: Caujolle-Zaslawsky, Françoise , Jacob, André (Ed.), Mattéi, Jean-François (Ed.)
Title Simplicius
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 1992
Published in Encyclopédie philosophique universelle: Les oeuvres philosophiques
Pages 319-321
Categories no categories
Author(s) Caujolle-Zaslawsky, Françoise
Editor(s) Jacob, André , Mattéi, Jean-François
Translator(s)

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Y a-t-Il des catégories stoïciennes?, 1991
By: Duhot, Jean-Joël
Title Y a-t-Il des catégories stoïciennes?
Type Article
Language French
Date 1991
Journal Revue Internationale de Philosophie
Volume 45
Issue 178 (3)
Pages 220-244
Categories no categories
Author(s) Duhot, Jean-Joël
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Passionate Intellect. Essays on the Transformation of Classical Tradition, 1995
By: Ayres, Lewis (Ed.), Fortenbaugh, William (Ed.)
Title The Passionate Intellect. Essays on the Transformation of Classical Tradition
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1995
Publication Place New Brunswick – London
Publisher Transaction Publishers
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Ayres, Lewis , Fortenbaugh, William
Translator(s)
Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth of "Pan-Posidonianism." He has presented a clearer picture of the Posidonius to whom we may have access. The Passionate Intellect is both a Festschrift offered to Professor Kidd and an important collection of essays on the transformation of classical traditions.

The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd's own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, "The Passionate Intellect." Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions. The chapters cover the whole of the classical and late antique periods, including the main genres of classical literature and history, and the gradual emergence of Christian literature and themes in late antiquity.

Many of the papers naturally concentrate on ancient philosophy and its legacy. Others deal with ancient literary theory, history, poetry, and drama. Most of the papers deal with their subjects at some length and are significant contributions in their own right. The contributors to this collection include key figures hi contemporary classical scholarship, including: C. Carey (London); C. J. Classen (Gottingen); J. Dillon (Dublin); K. J. Dover (St. Andrews); W. W. Fortenbaugh (Rutgers); H. M. Hine (St. Andrews); J. Mansfeld (Utrecht); R. Janko and R. Sharpies (London); and J. S. Richardson (Edinburgh). This book will be invaluable to philosophers, classicists, and cultural historians. [author's abstract]

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The Reception of Parmenides' Poetry in Antiquity, 1998
By: Popa, Tiberiu M.
Title The Reception of Parmenides' Poetry in Antiquity
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Studii Clasice
Volume 34-36
Pages 5-27
Categories no categories
Author(s) Popa, Tiberiu M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Role of the Commentaries on Aristotle in the Teaching of Philosophy according to the Prefaces of the Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories, 1991
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut, Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title The Role of the Commentaries on Aristotle in the Teaching of Philosophy according to the Prefaces of the Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 175-189
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
n 19671 had  only  just  begun  to  study  Simplicius’  commentary  on  Epictetus’ 
Enchiridion, and I had had at that time my first few doubts about whether 
Praechter’s  views  on  the  dogmatic  position  of Alexandrian  Neo­
platonism were well founded.2 Praechter had at least formulated these 
views in the form of hypotheses, but despite his circumspection, they 
had quickly become unassailable certainties for historians, universally 
admired and accepted for over fifty years. It was just at this point that I 
came  across  the  contribution  of A. C.  Lloyd,  who  dared  to say3 that 
Praechter had  misread or read too hastily the passages in Simplicius’ 
commentary on Epictetus which referred to first principles, on which 
Praechter  largely  based  his  theory.  It  was  Lloyd  again,  in  the  same 
paper,4  who  put  historians  of philosophy  on  their  guard  against the tendency  (likewise  deriving from  Praechter)  to  minimize,  or even  to 
refuse to acknowledge, the importance of the fact that for a long time all 
the  Neoplatonists  believed  in  a  fundamental  agreement  between 
Plato’s  philosophy  and  Aristotle’s.  In  my  book  Le Problème du néo­
platonisme alexandrin: Hiéroclès et Simplicius’ I simply followed the track 
marked  out  by  Lloyd.  And  even  now,  in  the  translation  with  com­
mentary of Simplicius’ commentary on the  Categories which has been 
undertaken under my editorship,5 61 am attempting to carry further the 
critique of Praechter’s hypotheses which Lloyd began.This will also be the case in the present paper, which will bring out 
some  of  the  results  which  might  be  reached  by  working  on  the 
Neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle’s  Categories. [pp. 175 f.]

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The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine, 1994
By: Tempelis, Elias
Title The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1994
Publication Place Athen
Publisher Parnassos Literary Society
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tempelis, Elias
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The thesis undertakes a reconstruction and critical assessment of
the theory of the Neoplatonic school of Ammonius, son of Hermias, on the
presuppositions for the acquisition of knowledge of the divine and also
on the contents and the purpose of this knowledge.
The metaphysical position of the human soul between the
intelligible and the sensible worlds allows it to know the intelligible
world and the divine, in particular, provided that the cognitive reasonprinciples
in the human intellect are activated. The purpose of such
knowledge is the assimilation to the divine and is achieved by means of
a personal struggle with the help of theoretical and practical
philosophy. The school of Ammonius compared its philosophical attempt at
knowledge of the divine to previous similar methods.
Since the One is unknowable, the members of this school believed
that man can know to some extent the Demiurge, who belongs to the second
level of the intelligible world. The members of the school had different
views on affirmative and negative theology. The intelligible ante rem
universals, the most fundamental of which is Substance, constitute the
cognitive and creative reason-principles of the demiurgic Intellect. The
eternal activation of these principles result in the Demiurge's
omniscience and the creation of the world, which is coetemal with the
Demiurge. The Demiurge is incorporeal and exercises providence for what
He has created, but He is not omnipotent.
The theory of the school of Ammonius on knowledge of the divine is
shown to be broadly consistent, though not necessarily convincing. [author's abstract]

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The Stoics on cases, predicates, and the unity of the proposition, 1997
By: Gaskin, Richard , Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The Stoics on cases, predicates, and the unity of the proposition
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Aristotle and after
Pages 91-107
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gaskin, Richard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
As far as traditional classifications go, the Stoics count as materialists. But it is notorious that there were four things in  their world-view which do not fit this caracterization: time, place, the void and the so-called ‘sayables', or lekta (SE AM 10.218  =  FDS 720). Lekta consist of three main kinds of quasi-linguistic item: centrally, simple propositions (as well as certain non-assertoric, but grammatically autonomous, items) are ‘complete’ lekta (DL 7 .6-8 = FDS  696, 874; SE AM 8.70-74).  From these propositions, more complex ‘complete’ lekta maybe constructed, such as conditionals (DL 7.71) or syllogisms (DL 7.63). And within the structure of complete lekta, ‘incomplete’ lekta, such as predicates, maybe discerned. I call lekta quasi-linguistic, rather than linguistic,  because,  as we learn from an important passage in Sextus (AM 8.11-13 = FDS 67), the Stoics distinguished lekta both from language and from physical objects in the world. Hence linguistic items such as the verb (rhêma) ‘writes’ and the complete sentence (logos) ‘Socrates writes’ should be kept rigorously apart from their corresponding lekta  -  the predicate (katigorema) writes and the complete proposition (axidma) Socrates writes - which the linguistic expressions signify  (semainein: SE AM 8.11 - 12, DL 7.56, 58, 65). 
In this paper I shall examine the Stoic treatment of the main constituents of the complete lekton: cases and predicates. I shall argue that cases are, like predicates, (incomplete) lekta, and that the verbal noun played a central role in Stoic thinking about lekta. In the light of these reflections, I shall conclude with some speculative remarks on the unity of the proposition. [Introduction, p. 91]

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The Strasbourg Papyrus of Empedocles: Some Preliminary Remarks, 1999
By: van der Ben, Nicolaas
Title The Strasbourg Papyrus of Empedocles: Some Preliminary Remarks
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Journal Mnemosyne, Fourth Series
Volume 52
Issue 5
Pages 525-544
Categories no categories
Author(s) van der Ben, Nicolaas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Synonymy of Homonyms, 1999
By: Flannery, Kevin L.
Title The Synonymy of Homonyms
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
Volume 81
Pages 268–289
Categories no categories
Author(s) Flannery, Kevin L.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Is the homonym-synonym paradox important enough to force this emen­dation? I think that it is.  If considering the two definitions in conjunction -the definition of homonyms and that of synonyms - it turns out that homo­nyms qua homonyms are not homonyms and, therefore,  that only qua not homonyms are homonyms homonyms, that is a  problem. We can resolve the paradox by breaking the conjunction - i. e., by severing the interdepen­dence between the two definitions by eliminating tas ouisas from the first. Would Aristotle have anticipated the paradox and set out his definitions so as to  avoid it? We do not have to  go so far. We need only believe that, when initially conceiving Cat. i, he had a consistent set of ideas in  mind. That is, we need only believe that he had in mind a position that would not lead to  the type of problems that typically arise when two definitions are interdependent. [Author's abstract]

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The commentators: their identity and their background, 1996
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)
Title The commentators: their identity and their background
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1996
Published in Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima"
Pages 35-51
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s)

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The writings of the De anima commentators, 1996
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)
Title The writings of the De anima commentators
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1996
Published in Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima"
Pages 53-71
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s)
So far we have discussed the work of our commentators as if it was 
simply scholarship  and  philosophical exposition,  whether of their own 
philosophy or that of Aristotle which most of them held to be fundamen­
tally the same. There is, however, another aspect of the commentaries 
which, while not prominent, should not be forgotten. That is the way in 
which doing such work was an integral part of a life aimed at the greatest 
possible degree of return to that higher reality from which the commenta­
tors  saw  human  life  as  a  decline  and  separation.  It  is  becoming 
increasingly better understood that for the great majority of Greek philo­
sophers, philosophy was not only a way of thinking but a way of life.70 The 
late Neoplatonists  seem  to have gone  even further,  and  regarded  the 
production of commentaries as a kind of service to the divine, much as a 
Christian monk who engaged in scholarship would have seen it in that 
light So we find at the end of Simplicius’ commentary on the De caelo what 
can only be described as a prayer: ‘Oh lord and artificer of the universe 
and the simple bodies in it, to you and all that has been brought into being 
by you I offer this work as a hymn, being eager to see as a revelation the 
magnitude of your works and to proclaim it to those who are worthy, so 
that thinking no  mean  or mortal  thoughts  about  you  we  may  make 
obeisance to you in accordance with the high place you occupy in respect 
of all that is produced by you’ (731.25-9). Those who think that ancient 
philosophy ceased to be of interest some three and a half centuries before 
these words were written and who may from time to time consult Sim­
plicius for an opinion on the meaning of an Aristotelian text, are unlikely 
ever to see these words, or those that come at the end of the commentary 
on the Enckeiridion (138.22-3). Without them they cannot fully under­
stand the nature of works beyond whose surface they never penetrate, 
works whose very composition could be seen as an act of reverence to the 
gods of paganism. [Conclusion, p. 71]

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There is, however, another aspect of the commentaries \r\nwhich, while not prominent, should not be forgotten. That is the way in \r\nwhich doing such work was an integral part of a life aimed at the greatest \r\npossible degree of return to that higher reality from which the commenta\u00ad\r\ntors saw human life as a decline and separation. 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Theophrastus' Rhetorical Works: One Rhetorical Fragment the Less, One Logical Fragment the More, 1998
By: Schenkeveld, Dirk M., Van Ophuijsen, Johannes M. (Ed.)
Title Theophrastus' Rhetorical Works: One Rhetorical Fragment the Less, One Logical Fragment the More
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1998
Published in Theophrastus: Reappraising the Sources
Pages 67-80
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schenkeveld, Dirk M.
Editor(s) Van Ophuijsen, Johannes M.
Translator(s)
In the list of Theophrastus’ works on rhetoric and poetics as given in 
the new collection under 666 FHS&G one finds twenty-four items, 
some of them (2 and 17) subdivided into (a) and (b). Most of these titles 
come from the list of Theophrastus’ works in Diogenes Laertius 5.42- 
50. In all but five cases (2, 6,17, 22 and 23, the last two on comedy and 
on the ludicrous respectively), Diogenes is our only source for them. 
The responsible editor, W. W. Fortenbaugh, also refers to several titles 
of works which other scholars had placed in the group of rhetorical trea­
tises, but his classification is different. This variation is explained by the 
fact that Diogenes’ list does not give any indication of the type of work 
to which any title belongs, which leaves scholars free to devise their 
own arrangement.In what follows I will discuss the place or the wording of a few titles, 
and especially that of 17b, thereby focusing on the nature and contents 
of 683 FHS&G. The editors have declined to arrange the fragments ac­
cording to known works (cp. vol. I, pp. 7-8). Nevertheless, I will argue, 
even by their arrangement of the titles they  sometimes  suggest too 
much, or too little. [Introduction, p. 67]

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