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Summary:

"Placita (Tenets), generally attributed to an author named Aëtius and dating from the late first or early second century AD, was a compendium setting out in summary fashion the principal doctrines and opinions of philosophers and philosophical schools in response to questions and topics in the domain of natural philosophy. Now lost, Placita can be largely reconstructed from the work of three authors working in the period from the second to the fifth century (Pseudo-Plutarch, Stobaeus, and Theodoret) who quote from it extensively. Placita is organized into five books: First Principles; Cosmology; Meteorology and the Earth; Psychology; and Physiology. Each chapter contains a list of short opinions or tenets, which are ascribed to an individual philosopher and/or school and usually arranged in sections that stress the variety and contrast of the teachings concerned. Designed as a multi-purpose resource, Placita long served as a manual of neatly packaged doxographic material on a wide variety of topics, to be used for study, as an aide-memoire, for displays of erudition, for persuasion in rhetorical or apologetic contexts, and for personal enlightenment, and it remains a valuable source for our knowledge of Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy. This edition of Aëtius' Placita offers a fresh translation, ample annotation, and a text fully informed by the latest scholarship"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Aëtius, active 1st century-2nd century , author

Contributors:

Mansfeld, Jaap , editor, translator

Runia, David T. , editor, translator

Languages:

English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Language Notes:

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

Main Work:

Placita [by Aëtius]

Included Works:

Placita [by Aëtius] (English; (Mansfeld and Runia))

Placita [by Aëtius] (Greek; (Mansfeld and Runia))

Related Series:

Loeb classical library; [volume] 555

Subjects:

Aëtius, active 1st century-2nd century — Placita

Philosophy, Ancient

Aëtius, active 1st century-2nd century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xc, 529 pages ; 17 cm.

Call Numbers:

PA3860.A172 P53 2023

ISBNs:

9780674997592 (cloth)
067499759X (cloth)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023002935

OCLC Numbers:

1376500864