Author 552
Quelques exemples de scholies dans la tradition arabe des "Éléments" d'Euclide, 2003
By: Djebbar, Ahmed
Title Quelques exemples de scholies dans la tradition arabe des "Éléments" d'Euclide
Type Article
Language French
Date 2003
Journal Revue d'histoire des sciences
Volume 56
Issue 2
Pages 293-321
Categories no categories
Author(s) Djebbar, Ahmed
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Early Reactions to Plato’s Timaeus: polemic and exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus, 2003
By: Baltussen, Han, Sharples, Robert W. (Ed.), Sheppard, Anne D. (Ed.)
Title Early Reactions to Plato’s Timaeus: polemic and exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2003
Published in Ancient Approaches to Plato's Timaeus
Pages 49-71
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s) Sharples, Robert W. , Sheppard, Anne D.
Translator(s)
We are reasonably well informed about what might justly be thought of as the commentary tradition of the late Hellenistic and late antique period. In this series of papers on the theme ‘Plato’s Timaeus and the Commentary Tradition’ an obvious choice of topic has been to discuss the works of authors who explicitly declare to be commenting upon or clarifying the text o f an author. Most papers in this volume have therefore justly seen it as their task to clarify the interaction between one commentator and the Timaeus. My perspective is slightly different. Commentary as we usually see it must have had its precursors in some form or other. As it happens, we have some evidence related to the Timaeus which makes this a reasonable assumption. I therefore want to look at two thinkers whose interpretative efforts occur at the beginnings of the ‘commentary tradition’ . Here things are less clear and well-defined in that at this end o f the scale we are dealing with the emergence o f exegesis. This means that certain fundamental assumptions - eg. what a commentary or a commentator is - would no longer have an obvious value as starting points and that important questions about the interaction between authors and texts (such as ‘what is a commentary?’, ‘what form did the interpretation of texts take?’ or ‘when do commentaries emerge?’) require a fresh look. [p. 49]

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Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)?, 2003
By: Kouremenos, Theokritos
Title Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)?
Type Article
Language English
Date 2003
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 146
Issue 3/4
Pages 328-345
Categories no categories
Author(s) Kouremenos, Theokritos
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In Cael. 3.1 Aristotle argues against those who posit that all bodies are generated because they are made from, and dissolve into, planes, namely Plato and perhaps other members of the Academy who subscribed to the Timaeus physics (cf. Simplicius, In Cael. 561,8-11 [Heiberg]). ]). In his Timaeus Plato assigns to each of the traditional Empedoclean elements a regular polyhedron: the tetra- hedron or pyramid to fire, the cube to earth, the octahedron to air and the icosahedron to water... [p. 328]

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Der philosophische Unterrichtsbetrieb in der römischen Kaiserzeit, 2003
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut
Title Der philosophische Unterrichtsbetrieb in der römischen Kaiserzeit
Type Article
Language German
Date 2003
Journal Rhein. Museum
Volume 146
Issue 1
Pages 49–71
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Der Text beschreibt den Zustand des philosophischen Unterrichts während der römischen Kaiserzeit. Obwohl die bekannten Philosophenschulen in Athen nicht mehr existierten, hatten die vier philosophischen Richtungen des Hellenismus dennoch Verbreitung gefunden und wurden in privaten Schulen unterrichtet. Diese Schulen waren jedoch meist kurzlebig und hingen vom Erfolg des Lehrers ab. Philosophie wurde an den griechischen Gymnasien nicht gelehrt, stattdessen konzentrierte man sich auf Grammatik und Rhetorik. Im lateinischen Bereich führten enge Beziehungen führender Römer zu stoischen Philosophen zur Verbreitung der Lehren. Der Philosophieunterricht begann meist erst nach der Pubertät, und das Alter spielte eine wichtige Rolle bei der Seelenleitung. Das Greisenalter wurde als optimal angesehen, da der körperliche Verfall der freien Betätigung des Geistes entgegenkomme. Das Bild des philosophischen Unterrichtsbetriebes in der Kaiserzeit war somit sehr komplex. [introduction/conclusion]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’, 2003
By: Chase, Michael (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2003
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Chase, Michael
Translator(s) Chase, Michael(Chase, Michael ) ,
Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 1, 2003
By: Bowen, Alan C., Simplicius
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]

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Aristotle and some of his Commentators on the Timaeus’ Receptacle, 2003
By: Gregory, Andrew, Sharples, Robert W. (Ed.), Sheppard, Anne D. (Ed.)
Title Aristotle and some of his Commentators on the Timaeus’ Receptacle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2003
Published in Ancient Approaches to Plato's Timaeus
Pages 29-47
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gregory, Andrew
Editor(s) Sharples, Robert W. , Sheppard, Anne D.
Translator(s)
The nature of the receptacle, presented at Timaeus 48e-53b, is controversial. It is unclear whether the receptacle is supposed to be matter, or whether it is supposed to be space, or whether it is in some way both matter and space. Plato seems to intend some reform of the way in which we refer to the phenomena, but the nature of that reform is far from clear.1 Can the evidence of Aristotle help us here? Aristotle and some of his commentators have some interesting and significant things to say about the receptacle and its contents, more perhaps than is generally recognised. [introduction, p. 29]

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Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8, 2002
By: Schofield, Malcom
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.

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The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages: A Doxographic Approach, 2002
By: Gersh, Stephen (Ed.), Hoenen, Maarten J. F. M. (Ed.)
Title The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages: A Doxographic Approach
Type Edited Book
Language undefined
Date 2002
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher de Gruyter
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Gersh, Stephen , Hoenen, Maarten J. F. M.
Translator(s)
Das Handbuch beschreitet neue Wege in der Schilderung der komplexen Geschichte jener geistigen Strömungen, die gemeinhin unter der Bezeichnung 'platonisch' bzw. 'neuplatonisch' zusammengefaßt werden. Es behandelt in chronologischer Folge die bedeutendsten philosophischen Denkrichtungen innerhalb dieser Tradition. Die Beiträge untersuchen die wichtigsten platonischen Begriffe und ihre semantischen Implikationen, erläutern die mit ihnen verbundenen philosophischen und theologischen Ansprüche, legen die Quellen der Begriffe dar und stellen sie in den Kontext der auf sie rekurrierenden bzw. ihnen zuwiderlaufenden geistigen Traditionen. So entsteht ein lebhaftes Bild des intellektuellen Lebens im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. Das Werk enthält Beiträge in englischer und deutscher Sprache. [Author's abstract]

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The dynamics of Aristotelian natural philosophy from Antiquity to the seventeenth century, 2002
By: Leijenhorst, Cees (Ed.), Lüthy, Christoph (Ed.), Thijssen, Johannes M. M. H. (Ed.)
Title The dynamics of Aristotelian natural philosophy from Antiquity to the seventeenth century
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place Leiden – Boston – Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Medieval and early modern science
Volume 5
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Leijenhorst, Cees , Lüthy, Christoph , Thijssen, Johannes M. M. H.
Translator(s)

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Les problèmes posés par l'édition critique des textes anciens et médiévaux, 1992
By: Hamesse, Jacqueline (Ed.)
Title Les problèmes posés par l'édition critique des textes anciens et médiévaux
Type Edited Book
Language French
Date 1992
Publication Place Louvain-la-Neuve
Publisher Institute d'Etudes Médiévales
Series Textes, Études, Congrès
Volume 13
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Hamesse, Jacqueline
Translator(s)
La meilleure manière d'introduire aux problèmes posés par l'édition critique des textes anciens et médiévaux est de présenter une série de cas concrets illustrant les difficultés inhérentes à ce type de travail et la complexité des éléments à prendre en considération. Les aspects à traiter sont multiples. L'accent a été mis sur la nécessité de tenir compte du contexte historique qui a conditionné la transmission de l'oeuvre et des facteurs matériels qui sont intervenus dans la tradition. Appel a été fait à différents spécialistes ayant rencontré des problèmes spécifiques dans leurs travaux. Le volume contient des articles qui présentent l'expérience de chercheurs qualifiés dans des domaines précis et qui mettent l'accent sur le point de vue méthodologique.

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Les présocratiques et la question de l'infini, 1981
By: Frère, Jean
Title Les présocratiques et la question de l'infini
Type Article
Language French
Date 1981
Journal Les Études philosophiques
Volume 1
Pages 19-33
Categories no categories
Author(s) Frère, Jean
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Les sources gréco-arabes de la théorie médiévale de l'analogie de l'être, 1989
By: de Libera, Alain
Title Les sources gréco-arabes de la théorie médiévale de l'analogie de l'être
Type Article
Language French
Date 1989
Journal Les Études philosophiques
Volume 3
Issue 4
Pages 319-345
Categories no categories
Author(s) de Libera, Alain
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The text explores the sources of the medieval theory of analogy and its various applications and argues that it was a product of the philosophical exegesis of Aristotle that followed the translations of his work and its Greek and Arabic interpretations. [introduction]

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Les sources vénitiennes de l’édition aldine du Livre I du Commentaire de Simplicius sur la „Physique“ d’Aristote, 1985
By: Codero, Néstor-Luis
Title Les sources vénitiennes de l’édition aldine du Livre I du Commentaire de Simplicius sur la „Physique“ d’Aristote
Type Article
Language French
Date 1985
Journal Scriptorium
Volume 39
Issue 1
Pages 70–88
Categories no categories
Author(s) Codero, Néstor-Luis
Editor(s)
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Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8, 2002
By: Schofield, Malcom
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.

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Levels of human thinking in Philoponus, 1985
By: Verbeke, Gérard, Laga, Carl (Ed.), Munitiz, Joseph A. (Ed.), Rompay, Lucas van (Ed.)
Title Levels of human thinking in Philoponus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1985
Published in After Chalcedon. Studies in Theology and Church History. Offered to Professor Albert van Roey for his seventieth birthday
Pages 451-470
Categories no categories
Author(s) Verbeke, Gérard
Editor(s) Laga, Carl , Munitiz, Joseph A. , Rompay, Lucas van
Translator(s)
What is finally the meaning of Philoponus’s  teaching on  the levels of thought? Taking into account the previous considerations, we may 
conclude that this doctrine  is  intended  to disclose  the true  nature  of philosophical  reflection  as  a  direct  and  immediate  intuition  of  the 
intelligible world.  This disclosure  is an  internal  one:  each  individual bears within himself, in the hidden abodes of his consciousness, a treasure 
of philosophical wisdom". In order to contemplate the highest truth, man should not leave himself,  on  the contrary  he should  come  back 
and turn  to  himself,  to  his  true self.  Most  people live outside  them­selves in a permanent forgetfulness of their  real  nature:  they  hardly 
participate in philosophical wisdom, they only possess some common intuitions,  which  are  a  kind  of  trace  or  vestige  of  rational  truth. 
They never come to the level of a direct contemplation of the intelligibles. In  order  to  reach  the  supreme  level  of thinking  man  needs  a  moral preparation,  which  makes  him  able  to  overcome  the  influence  of irrational movements; he also needs an intellectual training by means 
of discursive  reasoning  in  order  to  free  himself from  the  impact  of senses  and  imagination.  If these  requirements  are  fulfilled,  man  be­
comes  able to  contemplate  directly  true reality  in  the  internal  world of his consciousness. [conclusion, p. 469]

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Light from Aristotle's "Physics" on the Text of Parmenides B 8 D-K, 1977
By: Solmsen, Friedrich
Title Light from Aristotle's "Physics" on the Text of Parmenides B 8 D-K
Type Article
Language English
Date 1977
Journal Phronesis
Volume 22
Issue 1
Pages 10-12
Categories no categories
Author(s) Solmsen, Friedrich
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Notes on Parmenides B 8 D-K

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Light on Creation. Ancient Commentators in Dialogue and Debate on the Origin of the World, 2017
By: Roskam, Geert (Ed.), Verheyden, Joseph (Ed.)
Title Light on Creation. Ancient Commentators in Dialogue and Debate on the Origin of the World
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2017
Publication Place Tübingen
Publisher Mohr Siebeck
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Roskam, Geert , Verheyden, Joseph
Translator(s)
The present volume contains the proceedings of an international colloquium held in February 2015 at the Arts Faculty of the KU Leuven that brought together specialists in (late) ancient philosophy and early Christian studies. Contributors were asked to reflect on the reception of two foundational texts dealing with the origin of the world - the third book of Plato's Timaeus and the Genesis account of the creation. The organizers had a double aim: They wished to offer a forum for furthering the dialogue between colleagues working in these respective fields and to do this by studying in a comparative perspective both a crucial topic shared by these traditions and the literary genres through which this topic was developed and transmitted. The two reference texts have been studied in antiquity in a selective way, through citations and essays dealing with specific issues, and in a more systematic way through commentaries. The book is divided into three parts. The first one deals with the so-called Middle- and Neoplatonic tradition. The second part is dedicated to the Christian tradition and contains papers on several of the more important Christian authors who dealt with the Hexaemeron. The third part is entitled "Some Other Voices" and deals with authors and movements that combine elements from various traditions. Special attention is given to the nature and dynamics of the often close relationship between the various traditions as envisaged by Jewish-Christian authors and to the remarkable lack of interest from the Neoplatonists for "the other side". [author's abstract]

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Logic and Interpretation: Syllogistic Reconstructions in Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, 2021
By: Harari, Orna
Title Logic and Interpretation: Syllogistic Reconstructions in Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 122-139
Categories no categories
Author(s) Harari, Orna
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this article I explain three puzzling features of Simplicius’ use of syllogistic reconstructions in his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics: (1) Why does he reconstruct Aristotle’s non-argumentative remarks? (2) Why does he identify the syllogistic figure of an argument but does not explicitly present its reconstruction? (3) Why in certain lemmata does he present several reconstructions of the same argument? Addressing these questions, I argue that these puzzling features are an expression of Simplicius’ assumption that formal reasoning underlies Aristotle’s prose, hence they reflect his attempt to capture as faithfully as possible Aristotle’s actual mode of reasoning. I show further that, as a consequence of this seemingly descriptive use of syllogistic reconstructions, logic serves Simplicius not only as an expository and clarificatory tool of certain interpretations or philosophical views, but also motivates and shapes his exegetical stances and approach. [conclusion, p. 138]

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Love and Strife in Empedocles' Cosmology, 1965
By: Solmsen, Friedrich
Title Love and Strife in Empedocles' Cosmology
Type Article
Language English
Date 1965
Journal Phronesis
Volume 10
Issue 2
Pages 109-148
Categories no categories
Author(s) Solmsen, Friedrich
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In Heracitus  and Parmenides assumptions which form the  basis of on the contrary it may be said that difficulties which were less apparent 
as  long  as  the  discussion confined itself  to  individual fragments or 
groups of  fragments become more visible  when the  entire scheme is 
worked out  and  presented.  Perhaps the  wisest  course would  be  to 
admit ignorance on crucial points. If I, nevertheless, prefer to offer an 
alternative  reconstruction - in  essential  aspects  a  revival  of  von 
Arnim's3 -  my  hope is  that,  whether right or wrong, it  will  serve a 
good purpose if it shows that opinions currently accepted are not firmly 
grounded in the evidence at  our disposal. [pp. 109 f.]
our  interpretation  are  subject  to  frequent  reexaminations and 
revisions. With Empedocles  matters  are different.  Here  large 
hypotheses have  for a long time remained unchallenged and are now 
near  the  point  of  hardening into  dogmas.  In  particular the  recon- 
struction of a dual cosmogony in his "cycle", originally a theory which 
had  to  contend  with  others,  is  now  often  regarded as  established, 
treated  as  though  it  were  a  fact,  and  used  as  premise for  further 
inferences. The  only  full  scale  interpretation of  the  evidence  which 
backs up this theory is Ettore Bignone's Empedoclel; yet whatever the 
merits of this book, it can hardly be denied that in the fifty years since 
its publication  we  have  learned  many  new  lessons  regarding the 
relative  value  of  testimonies  and  fragments, the  trustworthiness of 
Aristotle's  reports  on  his  precursors, and  other  questions  of  vital 
bearing on the  reconstruction of  a  Presocratic system.  A  recent text 
book which seeks to  fit  the  material into  the  framework of  two  cos- 
mogonies does not in my opinion succeed in strengthening this position

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