Table Of ContentTheophrastus of Eresus Commentary Volume 6.1
Philosophia Antiqua
A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy
PreviousEditors
J.H. Waszink†
W.J. Verdenius†
J.C.M. Van Winden
Editedby
K.A. Algra
F.A.J. De Haas
J. Mansfeld
C.J. Rowe
D.T. Runia
Ch. Wildberg
VOLUME123
Theophrastus of Eresus
Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence
Commentary Volume 6.1
Sources on Ethics
Theophrastus of Eresus
Commentary Volume 6.1
Sources on Ethics
by
William W. Fortenbaugh,
with Contributions on the Arabic Material
by Dimitri Gutas
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2011
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CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................. ix
I.Introduction ......................................................... 1
II.TheSources ......................................................... 9
. AuthorsIncludingPseudonymiandAnonymiArranged
Chronologically ................................................ 10
. Greek,LatinandItalianAnthologies,Gnomologiesand
OtherCollections .............................................. 94
. Lexicographers................................................. 109
. Scholia.......................................................... 113
. CatalogueofBooks ............................................ 116
. ArabicSources ................................................. 118
III.TitlesofBooksno.–,no.,no.–,
no.,no.– ................................................ 121
IV.TheTexts ........................................................... 235
. WritingsonEthics,no.,,, ........... 235
. Emotions,,–,,-,A–I,,
–,A–B,A ...................................... 245
. VirtueandViceA–B,.,– .................... 297
. Education,ExhortationandCensure–A–B,
–,–A–B,–............................. 351
. Happiness–,A–B, ............................ 377
. TheWiseManandMarriage–....................... 408
. FortuneandGoodsandEvilsoutsidetheSoul– ..... 418
. Fate,NatureandtheDeathofCallisthenes– ......... 458
. Wealth–,–,– ......................... 478
. Kindness,HonorandVengeance– ................... 505
. JusticeA–B, ........................................... 541
. NaturalRelationship,A–D ........................... 550
. Friendship– ........................................... 575
viii contents
. Flattery–............................................... 631
. Pleasure– .............................................. 637
. Eros–,–,–A–B ....................... 660
. Wine–A–B,.–,–A–B .................. 706
V.Summary............................................................ 739
VI.BibliographyofModernLiterature ............................... 751
VII.IndicestotheTitlesandTexts.................................... 769
. ImportantWords............................................... 769
Greek ........................................................... 769
Latin............................................................ 785
Italian........................................................... 792
Arabic .......................................................... 792
. TitlesofBooks ................................................. 795
TheophrasteanGreek .......................................... 795
Latin............................................................ 796
Arabic .......................................................... 796
Non-TheophrasteanGreek .................................... 796
Latin............................................................ 796
. Gods,Persons,GroupsofPeopleandPlacesNamedor
ReferredtoinGreek,LatinorArabicTexts................... 797
VIII.IndicestotheCommentary ..................................... 805
. PassagesCitedinChaptersII–V............................... 805
. SubjectsDiscussedinChaptersII–V.......................... 867
IX.CorrigendaandAddendaintheText-TranslationVolumes ..... 875
. The“Ethics”sectionandtextsreferredtofromthatsection.. 875
. Referencesintheindices....................................... 878
PREFACE
WiththepublicationofthiscommentarymyworkonTheophrastushas
comefullcircle.In,QuellenzurEthikTheophrastswaspublishedby
Grüner Verlag as volume in the series Studien zur antiken Philoso-
phie. The book contains a collection of the ethical fragments of Theo-
phrastus(quotations,paraphrases,reportsetc.)togetherwithacommen-
taryinGerman.Forthebriefesttime,IthoughtthatImightmoveonto
entirely newchallenges; certainly Iwould notwritea secondcommen-
tary on Theophrastus’ ethics. Of that idea I was quickly disabused, for
havingorganizedateamofscholars,whowerecommittedtocollecting,
translatingandcommentingonallthefragmentsofTheophrastus—often
referredtoasProjectTheophrastus—itsoonbecameclearthatarational
divisionoftaskswouldnotletmewalkawayfromethics.Tobesure,par-
ticipationinthislargerprojectwouldleadmeintonewfields,inpartic-
ular,rhetoricandpoetics,butatthesametimeIbecamethepersonpri-
marilyresponsibleforrevisingtheethicalfragmentsthathadbeenpub-
lishedinQuellen.Inaddition,itfelltometoprovideatranslation,which
was missing in Quellen, and to write a commentary that took account
of our new and fuller collection of fragments. Now some twenty-seven
years after the publication of Quellen, I have no regrets, for fragments
missing in Quellen have been identified and included, the apparatus of
paralleltextshasbeenimproved,thesameistrueoftheapparatusofvari-
antreadings,andafacingtranslation(Greek,LatinandArabictextson
the left, English on the right) has been added. These improvements are
nowavailableinthetwovolumeworkTheophrastusofEresus:Sourcesfor
HisLife,Writings,ThoughtandInfluence(Brill,reprint).
The present commentary is considerably longer than that found in
Quellen.Thatishardlysurprising,giventheyearsthatseparatethetwo
works. Texts not found in Quellen have been commented upon, new
ideas set forth in the scholarly literature have been incorporated, and
old ideas have been revised. Sometimes a comment has been dropped
asmarginalandothertimesasmistaken.Inmakingthesestatements,I
amnotrecommendingthatallcopiesofQuellenbedestroyed.Thereare
timeswhenIfounditeconomicaltorefertoQuellenregardingmaterial