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Zusatztext This volume is a welcome contribution to the study of Arius Didymus' challenging compendium of Hellenistic ethics and only the second study to focus on this work since 1981. It offers a new edition of 'section C' on Peripatetic ethics! a discussion of the author's identity! and a well-selected set of aspects examined by experts in the field! exploring various themes and connections with Aristotle's works! ethical concepts such as virtue! the worth of others! external goods and types of life. The volume closes with a masterful essay in which Seneca's Letter 85 is used as indirect evidence for Peripatetic ethics in the first century. While not all questions on this work can be resolved! this volume certainly assists in a more detailed understanding of the complexities! questions and transmission of Peripatetic ethics in the early Empire.- Han Baltussen! University of Adelaide! Australia Informationen zum Autor William W. Fortenbaugh is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Rutgers University, USA. Klappentext This volume features a unique epitome of Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is often attributed to Arius Didymus who composed a survey of Peripatetic on three areas: ethics, household management, and politics. The quality of the epitome, which draws not only on the surviving treatises of Aristotle, but also later Peripatetics, is excellent. Zusammenfassung This volume features a unique epitome of Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is often attributed to Arius Didymus who composed a survey of Peripatetic on three areas: ethics, household management, and politics. The quality of the epitome, which draws not only on the surviving treatises of Aristotle, but also later Peripatetics, is excellent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Contributors 1 Didymus' Epitome of Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics: An Edition with Translation Georgia Tsouni 2 The Quest for an Author David E. Hahm 3 Moral Virtue in Didymus' Epitome of Peripatetic Ethics William W. Fortenbaugh 4 Intrinsic Worth of Others in the Peripatetic Epitome, Doxography C Stephen A. White 5 Two Conceptions of "Primary Acts of Virtue" in Doxography C Jan Szaif 6 Bodily and External Goods in Relation to Happiness Myrto Hatzimichali 7 Didymus on Types of Life William W. Fortenbaugh 8 Didymus' Epitome of the Economic and Political Topic Eckart Schutrumpf 9 Von Arnim, Didymus and Augustus: Three Related Notes on Doxography C Peter L. P. Simpson 10 Seneca's Peripatetics: Epistulae Morales 92 and the Stobaean Doxography C Margaret R. Graver ...
