| Title | Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 1 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2003 |
| Journal | SCIAMVS: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences |
| Volume | 4 |
| Pages | 23-58 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Bowen, Alan C. , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| If there is a single text that has proven to be the bedrock for the modern understanding of early Greek astronomy, it is Simplicius’ commentary on book 2 chapter 12 of Aristotle’s treatise, De caelo. Simplicius’ remarks, which are effectively an elaboration of what he supposes Aristotle to mean in Meta. Λ 8, are almost always accepted as gospel in their broad outlines. I have written at length elsewhere that Simplicius’ comments on De caelo 2.12 do not constitute an account of what Aristotle meant in Meta. Λ 8 that we should accept today as properly historical. That scholars today persist in reading Meta. Λ 8 and other early texts as indicating knowledge of the planetary stations and retrogradations is a puzzle. One only wishes, when these scholars have elaborated their interpretations of Meta. Λ 8 and of the other related texts written before the late second century that concern the planetary motions, that they not stop here as if their work as historians were done. Obviously, it will not be enough if they simply adduce relevant testimonia by later ancient writers. Not only are these testimonia few in number and date to a time after the characteristic planetary motions were duly understood, they typically prove on critical examination to be either ambiguous or anachronistic in the same way as Simplicius’ account is. Consequently, any appeal to such testimonia without critical argument in defense of their historical validity is pointless. Indeed, the burden must fall on these scholars to demonstrate that Meta. Λ 8 and the other early texts must be read in this way. For, absent such proof, all one has is the fallacy of imputing to a writer the perceived consequences of what he writes. Given the exigencies of publication, this annotated translation will come in two parts. The first, presented here, is devoted to Simplicius’ commentary on De caelo 2.10–11. These chapters in the De caelo raise stock issues in astronomy; and it is valuable, I think, for readers interested in Simplicius’ account of planetary theory in 2.12 to see and assess just how he deals with them. Indeed, not only does Simplicius’ commentary on 2.10–11 show him drawing on a tradition of technical writing for novices and philosophers that goes back to Geminus and Cleomedes, it also shows him going astray on fundamental points in elementary mathematics. And this is surely important for our interpretation of his commentary on 2.12. The annotation itself is, as I have said, intended to assist the reader with information that may be needed to make sense of the text. My main aim is to allow access to Simplicius that is as little encumbered by my interpretative intrusion as is feasible, since my hope in this publication is that the reader will confront Simplicius for himself by himself, so far as this is possible in a translation. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Cxa6aZwE2WNkdBB |
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| Title | Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Phronesis |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 253–263 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Schofield, Malcom |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This paper is a piece of detective work. Starting from an obvious excrescence inthe transmitted text of Simplicius's treatment of the foundations of Presocraticatomism near the beginning of his Physicscommentary, it excavates a Theophrasteancorrection to Aristotle's tendency to lump Leucippus and Democritus together: Theophrastus made application of the οὐ μᾶλλον principle in the sphere of ontol-ogy an innovation by Democritus. Along the way it shows Simplicius reorderinghis Theophrastean source in his efforts to nd material which will strengthen thecontrast between Leucippus's atomism and Eleatic metaphysics. And it arguesthat in doing so he all but obliterates TheophrastusÕs attempt to point up theDemocritean credentials of the οὐ μᾶλλον principle. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ztdPgt9XVtgSoRq |
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| Title | The Limits of Late Antiquity: Philosophy between Rome and Iran |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Ancient World |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45–69 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Walker, Joel Thomas |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/cNwfGbbhpYWUoRe |
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| Title | Simplicius or Priscianus? On the Author of the Commentary on Aristotle's "De Anima" (CAG XI) : A Methodological Study |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Mnemosyne, Fourth Series |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159–199 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hadot, Ilsetraut |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This article represents a new contribution to the author's debate with C. Steel as to the authenticity of the Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima, attributed by the manuscripts to the 6th-century A.D. Neoplatonist philosopher Simplicius. On the basis of what he claims are stylistic and doctrinal differences between the In DA and Simplicius' other commentaries, Steel has argued that the In DA cannot be by Simplicius, but is instead to be attributed to his contemporary Priscian of Lydia. In the present article, it is argued (1) that the alleged stylistic differences between the In DA and Simplicius' other commentaries can be explained by other considerations: in particular, the vocabulary and style of the Neoplatonist commentators is largely determined by the text commented upon, as well as the level of studies of the audience for whom each commentary is intended. (2) The alleged doctrinal differences between the In DA and Simplicius' other com- mentaries simply do not exist. Careful examination of Steel's arguments shows that they suffer from serious methodological flaws, including the failure to take into consideration Simplicius' Commentary on the Manual of Epictetus, and the ambiguity of Neoplatonic philosophical terminology. It is concluded that in the whole of Steel's argumentation, there is not one decisive argument which would allow us to conclude that the commentary on the De Anima, attributed by direct and indirect tradition to Simplicius, is inauthentic. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kB5BDlY4hvsJToF |
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| Title | The Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Classical Tradition |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | International Journal of the Classical Tradition |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-35 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Pingree, David |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This article addresses questions concerning the characteristics of the paganism of Harran, its eclectic sources, and its development by examining the relationships - real, possible, and fictitious - of various personalities with the city of Harran from Assyrian times till the Mongol attack in 1271. It is suggested that the Sabians used Neoplatonism, which, if Tardieu's analysis is correct, they originally learned from Simplicius, to develop, explain, and justify their practice of astral magic, and that their interest in the Greek astronomy and astrology that astral magic required served to maintain the study and to preserve the texts of these sciences during the centuries in which they were ignored in Byzantium. It is further shown that the Greek philosophical and scientific material available to them was mingled with elements from ancient Mesopotamia, India, Iran, Judaism, and Egypt to form a syncretic system of belief that they could claim to be mankind's original and authentic religion. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/X1WeKlIvMP4Qwf0 |
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| Title | Note sulla chiusura della Scuola neoplatonica di Atene |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Italian |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Schede Medievali |
| Volume | 42 |
| Pages | 53-95 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Napoli, Valerio |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/cmv1vllUEmRfYfx |
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| Title | La fin du Néoplatonisme Hellénique. Mise au point sur la question |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Revue de Philosophie Ancienne |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-110 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Saihi, Sofian |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/AjjKL33qFZURrzc |
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| Title | What goes up: Proclus against Aristotle on the fifth element |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Australasian Journal of Philosophy |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-287 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Baltzly, Dirk |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In this paper, I consider Proclus’ arguments against Aristotle on the composition of the heavens from the fifth element, the aether. Proclus argues for the Platonic view (Timaeus 40a) that the heavenly bodies are composed of all four elements, with fire predominating. I think that his discussion exhibits all the methodological features that we find admirable in Aristotle’s largely a priori proto-science. Proclus’ treatment of the question in his commentary on Plato’s Timaeus also provides the fullest statement of a neoplatonic alternative to the Aristotelian theory of the elements. As such, it forms a significant part of a still largely underappreciated neoplatonic legacy to the history of science. [authors abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/M34EGiOeJdMYBkH |
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| Title | Review of Hadot, I.: Simplicius. Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète, Tome I |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | The Classical Review, New Series |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 377-378 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Sheppard, Anne D. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Review of I. HADOT: Simplicius. Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Epictete. Tome I (Collection des Universites de France publiee sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Bude). Pp. clxxii + 184. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2001. Cased, frs. 380. ISBN: 2-251-004 |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/agUfNiIzUvFvS5Y |
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| Title | Simplicius and the Early History of Greek Planetary Theory |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Perspectives on Science |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155–167 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Bowen, Alan C. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| n earlier work, Bernard R. Goldstein and the present author have intro- duced a procedural rule for historical inquiry, which requires that one take pains to establish the credibility of any citation of ancient thought by later writers in antiquity through a process of veriªcation. In this paper, I shall apply what I call the Rule of Ancient Citations to Simplicius’ interpretation of Aristotle’s remarks in Meta . 8, which is the primary point of departure for the modern understanding of Greek planetary theory. I ªrst sketch several lines of argument that lead me to conclude that Simplicius’ interpretation should not be accepted because it assumes a concern with planetary phenomena unknown to the Greeks before the late 2nd and early 1st centuries bc. Then, after showing that there is a fairly well deªned range of readings of Aris- totle’s remarks more in keeping with what we actually know of astronomy in the 5th and 4th centuries bc, I conclude that neither Aristotle’s report about the Eudoxan and Callippan accounts of the celestial motions nor Simplicius’ interpretation of this report is a good starting point for our understanding of early Greek planetary theory. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/lJ4EoQlGmsAbp75 |
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| Title | The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Revue d’histoire des textes |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 351-358 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarán, Leonardo |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This paper tries to establish that supralinear omicron is not, as most elementary introductions to Greek paleography have it, a simple abbreviation for the ending omicron-sigma. Rather, it was originally a symbol for suspension that later medieval scribes used also for other subordinated purposes which are impossible to classify. Some examples will be given in what follows. For a long time this interpretation had seemed so obvious to me that during a 1985 colloquium on Simplicius in Paris, it surprised me that some members of the audience objected that supralinear omicron is simply an abbreviation for omicron-sigma. As this occurred during my discussion of a passage of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, and as several of my examples come from that work, it is convenient to give a list of the manuscripts used by Diels and also of additional prim ary witnesses either rejected by, or not known to him. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZJr3WclOTT5e1jS |
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| Title | The Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Classical Tradition |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | International Journal of the Classical Tradition |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-35 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Pingree, David |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This article addresses questions concerning the characteristics of the paganism of Harran, its eclectic sources, and its development by examining the relationships - real, possible, and fictitious - of various personalities with the city of Harran from Assyrian times till the Mongol attack in 1271. It is suggested that the Sabians used Neoplatonism, which, if Tardieu's analysis is correct, they originally learned from Simplicius, to develop, explain, and justify their practice of astral magic, and that their interest in the Greek astronomy and astrology that astral magic required served to maintain the study and to preserve the texts of these sciences during the centuries in which they were ignored in Byzantium. It is further shown that the Greek philosophical and scientific material available to them was mingled with elements from ancient Mesopotamia, India, Iran, Judaism, and Egypt to form a syncretic system of belief that they could claim to be mankind's original and authentic religion. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/X1WeKlIvMP4Qwf0 |
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| Title | Thomas' Neoplatonic Histories: His following of Simplicius |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Dionysius |
| Volume | 20 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hankey, Wayne J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Following Simplicius, Thomas set up the Platonic and Aristotelian philosophical viae as complementary oppositions each of which contributed to the truth. Thomas also followed Simplicius in discerning differences between the hermeneutic methods of the two great schools. He reproduced the history of philosophy of Simplicius as soon as he had his commentaries, agreed with many of his conciliating judgments, and used the same reconciling logical figures. He does not identify himself as a Peripatetic or as a Platonist. However, when he agrees that Aristotle’s way of reasoning, per viam motus, to the existence of separate substances is manifestior et certior, he is sitting in judgment with, not against, Simplicius. For both the sixth and the thirteenth century commentators, Plato and Aristotle are assimilated to each other in various ways, and the real possibility of any beginning except that from the sensible is excluded. Thomas’ hermeneutic is that of the Platonic tradition in late Antiquity – Thomas certainly thought that the truth was veiled under poetic and symbolic language and judged this to be essential for revealing the truth to humans. Consistently with this approach, in the exposition of the De Caelo, Aquinas goes so far with Simplicius as to find “something divine (fabula aliquid divinum continet)” in the myth that Atlas holds up the heavens.106 He would seem, thus, to be on his way to the reconciliation of religious as well as of philosophical traditions. If this should, in fact, be his intent, Thomas would be following Simplicius and his Neoplatonic predecessors in their deepest purposes. This Christian priest, friar, and saint would have placed himself with the “divine” Proclus among the successors of Plato. [Conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iv8aERtbvhiRAMo |
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| Title | Three Thêtas in the "Empédocle de Strasbourg" |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2001 |
| Journal | Mnemosyne, Fourth Series |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-84 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. , Mansfeld, Jaap |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
[Conclusion, p. 81]: ies of books that do not sell fast enough. We conclude that we cannot, merely on the basis of the Strasbourg fragments, confidendy assign to (book two of?) the physical poem the grue- some fragment (now plus its new context) Stein and Diels assigned to the Purifications. Until further evidence turns up, only a non liquet is feasible, and we should keep open the possibility that we are dealing with 'Z?y Empedocle de Strasbourg'. And the 6s in the papyrus fragments discussed above are simply wrong. The slighdy bizarre interpretation based on them may be abandoned. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/boL2U41aTbpaPuO |
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| Title | Time, Perpetuity and Eternity in Late Antique Platonism |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | KronoScope |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-235 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Siniossoglou, Nikētas |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This paper focuses on the late antique conception of time, eternity and perpetual duration and examines the relation between these concepts and Plato’s cosmology. By exploring the controversy between pagan philosophers (Proclus, Ammonius, Simplicius, Olympiodorus) and Christian writers (Aeneas of Gaza, Zacharias of Mytilene, Philoponus) in respect to the interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus, I argue that the Neoplatonic doctrine of the perpetuity (ἀïδιότης) of the world derives from a) the intellectual paradigm presupposed by the conceptual framework of late antiquity and b) the commentators’ principal concern for a coherent conception of Platonic cosmology essentially free from internal contradictions. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/r5SKTg8d7h2L4OM |
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| Title | Un commentaire perpétuel de Georges Pachymère à la Physique d'Aristote, faussement attribué à Michel Psellos |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2007 |
| Journal | Byzantinische Zeitschrift |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 637-676 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Golitsis, Pantelis |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Récapitulons l essentiel des raisonnements philologiques qui nous ont permis de restituer le véritable auteur du commentaire, qui dorénavant doit être attribué à Georges Pachymère. Nous avons vu que l 'ensemble de la tradition manuscrite qui attribue le commentaire à Psellos descend d' un ancêtre commun, l' Ambrosianus H 44 sup., écrit à la fin du XIVe siècle. Celui-ci remonte pourtant à un archétype, écrit vers l 'an 1300 et aujourd hui perdu (l 'Escori- alensis D. IV. 24), dans lequel le commentaire figurait sous le nom de Pachymère, ainsi que nous avons pu le montrer grâce au Vindobonensis phil. gr. 248 et à des témoignages du XVIe siècle. Cet archétype de l 'ensemble de la tradition manuscrite du commentaire a été copié sur le Laurentianus plut. 87,5, autographe stricto sensu de Pachymère, dont il se servait pour assurer son enseignement de la Physique. [conclusion, p. 676] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RuATZsvpBh8r0qp |
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| Title | Un commentario alessandrino al «De caelo» di Aristotele |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Italian |
| Date | 2013 |
| Journal | Athenaeum: Studi di letteratura e Storia dell'antichità |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 479-516 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Rescigno, Andrea |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/MosWsQqRlk4x6RL |
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| Title | Un philosophe plus poète (Simplicius, "Com. in Ar. Phys." 24, 20 / DK 12 A 9) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Revue de Philosophie Ancienne |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Santoro, Fernando |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This paper is about the meaning and implication for Presocratics modem exegesis of a comment made by Simplicius about the vocabulary of a passage from Anaximander, which he has just quoted. Simplicius says that Anaximander wrote his sentence about nature of beings in more poetics terms: ποιητικωτέροις ούτως όνόμασιν αΰτά λέγων. In their remarks on the passage, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only drew attention to the words and thought of Anaximander, but also made us look at that simple comment, that « hiccup » of thought in Simplicius. What is it for a philosopher to speak in a more poetic way? We propose to understand that it does not imply the use of images or allégories, but a very original way of interacting and thinking in universal terms. [Author’s abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/dEERWvXS4c5YAaD |
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| Title | Unbeachtete Zitate und doxographische Nachrichten in der Schrift De Aeternitate Mundi des Johannes Philoponos |
| Type | Article |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 202-219 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Scholten, Clemens |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
In der Schrift de aeternitate mundi (aetm.) des Johannes Philoponos aus der Zeit bald nach 529 n. Chr. gibt es über eine Reihe von bereits näher beleuchteten Quellen und doxographischen Nachrichten hinaus eine größere Anzahl von bisher unbeachteten doxographischen Materialien, Paraphrasen und/oder Zitaten aus verlorenen Schriften antiker Autoren. Unter quellenkritischen und doxographischen Gesichtspunkten im engeren Sinn ist aetm. noch nicht eigens untersucht worden. Das wird sicherlich damit zu tun haben, daß die Erforschung der doxographischen Überlieferung vor gut hundert Jahren ihren Schwerpunkt auf die vorplatonische Tra- dition setzte und unter diesem Gesichtspunkt aetm. offenbar ver- nachlässigen zu können glaubte, zumal H.Rabe als Herausgeber von aetm. in seinen Fußnoten die Textnachweise aus den großen Dichtern und Philosophen wie Homer, Piaton, Aristoteles, Plotin usw., soweit möglich, zuverlässig geführt hat1. Möglicherweise ist daran auch die Einschätzung des letzten Rezensenten der Rabe- schen Edition aus dem Jahre 1 90 1 nicht unbeteiligt, der aetm. für un- ergiebig im Hinblick auf verlorene Quellen hielt und meinte, aetm. habe lediglich bekanntes Material zu bieten. [p. 202] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZZPKEzJDuUHosJB |
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| Title | Wenn der Steuermann ruft..." (Epiktet, Encheiridion 7) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2022 |
| Journal | Hyperboreus |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-122 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Krämer, Benedikt |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/CjtWoBp8Z2FqtLn |
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