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Antisthenes of Athens
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Antisthenes of Athens
Texts, Translations, and Commentary
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Susan Prince
University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
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1. Antisthenes, approximately 445 B.C.— approximately 360 B.C.
2. Philosophy, Ancient. 3. Cynics (Greek philosophy) I. Antisthenes,
approximately 445 B.C.— approximately 360 B.C. Works. Selections.
English. II. Title.
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Acknowledgments
It is my pleasure to thank the people who have helped me most in the formula-
tion and completion of this book. Jim Porter directed the 1997 University of
Michigan dissertation that represents my first attempt at Antisthenes. No fol-
lower of received opinion, Jim pointed to Antisthenes as a way of access into
the world beyond Plato on questions of rhetoric and its various implications.
From a basement in Naples, as I recall, he acquired for me a copy of the 1990
edition of Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae, which has been my working copy
ever since. (I did pay him.) At many turns he has presented me with stimulat-
ing questions that have led to deeper levels of inquiry than I would have found
myself. The other readers on my dissertation, Sara Ahbel-R appe, Ann Ellis
Hanson, Ruth Scodel, Ludwig Koenen, and Bruce Mannheim, helped the early
development of this project, each in his or her own way. My persisting interest
in Homer has been fundamentally shaped by Ruth, and Ludwig’s insights on
the Ὅπλων Κρίσις and mythical tradition in general still come to mind many
years later; Sara kept me sound on Antisthenes’ basic identity as a philosopher
and solicited my contribution to her Blackwell Companion to Socrates; Ann has
indirectly taught me about ancient medicine and remains my model for the
generous scholarly mentor; Bruce’s anthropology course “Language as Social
Action” helped me to sort out some of the many possible functions of logos.
During my years at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Eckart Schütrumpf
stood as a model for the philological scholar of philosophical texts, and my
work with him on the fragments of Heraclides of Pontus was influential on the
present edition. Colleagues at the University of Cincinnati supported my career
in many respects. Kathryn Gutzwiller suggested that a commentary was the
most promising form for the contribution I sought to make to scholarship on
Antisthenes, which is revisionist, in some cases, at the textual level. The project
in its current form would have been impossible without the immense resources
of the Burnham Classical Library and its staff, especially Jacqueline Riley, Mi-
chael Braunlin, Cade Stevens, and the late David Ball. I thank Maria Pantelia
and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae for permission to copy and cite from its
texts, to leave aside my gratitude for its very existence. I thank Dumbarton
Oaks, and its librarians Deb Stewart and Linda Lott, for permission to use its
collection in summer 2009. I thank the Semple Fund for financial support dur-
ing the summers 2008– 10 and 2012, the University of Cincinnati’s University
Research Council for support in summer 2011, and the Department of Classics
and McMicken College of Arts and Sciences for a quarter’s release from teach-
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vi Acknowledgments
ing in fall 2009. Larry Jost of the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Cincinnati allowed me to audit his seminar on Plato’s Theaetetus in fall 2010,
and this was invaluable for extending my knowledge of that text, which must be
related to Antisthenes in some way. Larry also introduced me to the Ohio Read-
ing Group in Ancient Philosophy, whose members have helped me in the en-
deavor of sharpening my philosophical understanding. Mary Louise Gill kindly
fielded unsolicited email inquiries with careful explanations and previews of
unpublished work. David Blank pointed me to the latest editions of Philode-
mus. Ariana Traill, Jake MacPhail, and Cynthia Bannon invited me to their
departments (at the University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and Indiana
University) to speak on topics related to this book. I would like to acknowledge
the teachers in ancient philosophy whose formal pupil I have been, always for
periods too brief: Christopher Taylor and Jennifer Hornsby at Corpus Christi
College, Oxford, and Alan Code and Sara Ahbel-R appe at the University of
Michigan. I am a scholar of language and literature and not a philosopher, but I
hope that my philosophy teachers can hold favorable attitudes about the forma-
tive influences each has had on me. Ewen Bowie, my primary tutor at Corpus,
made me a Hellenist and shaped my approaches to ancient literature, before ei-
ther of us had thought much about Antisthenes. Helpful feedback on a previous
version of this project was given by Marnia Pickens, David Wolfsdorf, Kathryn
Gutzwiller, Ann Michelini, and Silvia Montiglio. Parts of this book were read by
Karin Schlapbach, Carl Huffmann, Fred Miller, and two anonymous readers for
the University of Michigan Press, whose insightful suggestions I acknowledge.
I would like to thank Richard Janko for suggestions on text-c ritical issues and
correction of many small errors. Michael Hanel helped with editing and com-
piling the indices, and John Wallrodt helped with computer- related matters. I
thank Philip Bosman of the University of South Africa and Vladislav Suvák of
the University of Prešov for opportunities to submit synthetic papers on An-
tisthenes while this book was in press. Additional special thanks to Graham
Zanker, Dee Clayman, Menahem Luz, Roger Greene, Jacklyn Gonzalez Martin,
and Alphonse Gerhardstein. Thanks to the Louise Taft Semple Trustees for a
special subvention supporting the pen-and-ink production of this book. In a
work of this scope, there will remain errors small and large, and these are my
errors. My family, especially my husband Matthew and my children Christo-
pher, Elissa, and Julia, my mother Margaret and my brother Jamie, have been
more than patient during the period of this book’s development. I could not
get away with the fortunate life I am leading, with the blessing of three beauti-
ful and lively children, without Matthew’s constant support and love, as well
as many hours of single parenting. My deep thanks go to Ellen Bauerle of the
University of Michigan Press, her assistant Alexa Ducsay, Mary Hashman, and
the copyediting team for enabling the publication of this work. It is my honor to
publish with Michigan, where my work on Antisthenes was first begun.
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Texts, Translations, and Commentary
Section 1 Antisthenes’ Biography: Homeland,
Parents, and Social Status (t. 1– 11) 27
Section 2 Antisthenes as Follower of Socrates (t. 12– 21) 45
Section 3 Antisthenes after Socrates (t. 22– 40) 76
Section 4 Antisthenes’ Writings (t. 41– 52) 120
Section 5 The Judgment of the Arms (t. 53– 54) 188
Section 6 Testimonia from the First Two Tomoi (t. 55– 67) 233
Section 7 Politics and Wealth (t. 68– 83) 251
Section 8 Cyrus, Heracles, and Ethics (t. 84– 99) 303
Section 9 Ethics, Toil, and Pleasure (t. 100– 134) 334
Section 10 Antisthenes, the Cynics, and the Stoics (t. 135–1 40) 395
Section 11 Ethical Characters: Alcibiades and Aspasia (t. 141– 144) 414
Section 12 Language (t. 145– 159) 422
Section 13 On Education (t. 160– 175) 541
Section 14 Nature, Eschatology, and Theology (t. 176– 184) 568
Section 15 Studies of Homer (t. 185– 197) 584
Section 16 Alcibiades and the Politicians (t. 198– 204) 678
Section 17 Imperial Imitations (t. 206– 208) 688
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Concordance of Decleva Caizzi’s Antisthenis Fragmenta 711
Index of Source Authors and Editions 715
Selected Bibliography 723
Index of Greek and Latin Terms and Words 747
General Index 768
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Abbreviations
APF Athenian Propertied Families, by J. K. Davies (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1971).
CAG Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1882–
1909).
CP Classical Philology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906– ).
CPF Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini, ed. F. Adorno (Florence:
Olschki, 1989– ).
CronErc Cronache Ercolanesi (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1971– ).
DC Antisthenis Fragmenta, ed. F. Decleva Caizzi (Milan: Istituto
editoriale cisalpino, 1966).
DK Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz, 6th ed.
3 vols. (Berlin: Weidmann, 1952).
FGrHist Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby (Berlin and
Leiden: Weidmann, 1923– 58).
GP The Greek Particles, by J. D. Denniston (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1954).
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (Cambridge, MA: Eaton
Press, 1959– 2009).
IG Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1873– ).
LGPN Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, ed. M. J. Osborne and S. G. Byrne
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987– ).
LSJ A Greek- English Lexicon, ed. H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, and
R. Mckenzie (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968).
ML A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, ed. R. Meiggs and D.
Lewis (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969).
PAA Persons of Ancient Athens, ed. J. Traill (Toronto: Athenians, 1994–
2012).
PCG Poetae comici Graeci, ed. R. Kassel and C. Austin (Berlin: De
Gruyter, 1983– 2001).
PHerc Catalogo dei Papiri ercolanesi (Naples: Bibliopolis, 1979).
POxy The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, ed. B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt (London:
Egypt Exploration Fund, 1896–) .
