Doxographi Graeci by Hermann Diels

Doxographi Graeci by Hermann Diels

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Zusammenfassung

Diels' Doxographi Graeci (1879) inaugurated the critical discipline of doxography - the editing, cataloguing, and analysing of extracts of classical texts that contain references to the ideas and arguments of lost authors and schools. Diels analyses passages from a range of Greek authors to uncover the ideas of the Presocratic philosophers.

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Doxographi Graeci by Hermann Diels

Herman Alexander Diels (1848–1922) published Doxographi Graeci in 1879. In many ways this work established the critical discipline of doxography - the editing, cataloguing, and analysing of extracts of extant classical texts that contain references to the ideas and arguments of lost authors and schools. In Doxographi Graeci Diels analyses passages from the extant work of authors such as Plutarch, Arius Didymus, Diogenes Laërtius, Ps-Plutarch, Hippolytus, Ps-Galen, Stobaeus, Theodoret and Eusebius and uses them to uncover information about the Presocratic philosophers and schools whose written treatises are no longer extant. Diels' method of filiation of extant sources, based on the critical methods of his teacher, Herman Karl Usener (1834–1905), allowed critical judgements to be made regarding the reliability and usefulness of extant authors and their references. Diels' magisterial work represented a profound breakthrough in the study of the Presocratic philosophers. It is a monument of classical scholarship.
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ISBN 13 9781108015493
ISBN 10 1108015492
Titel Doxographi Graeci
Autor Hermann Diels
Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2010-10-31
Seitenanzahl 870
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