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245 Xenophanes on the moon: a doxographicum in Aëtius DAVID T. RUNIA 0. Introduction . 1. The evidence in Diels ' 2. The evidence in the ancient sources a. the reconstruction of Aetius ' ' b. the text of Aetius' lemma c. the sequence of Aetius' chapter . 3. The Xenophanean lemma ' 4. A double conclusion . The subject of this article, Xenophanes' reported views on the nature or substance of the moon, can hardly be considered of great importance for the history of Greek philosophy. Xenophanes did, of course, have an important contribution to make, but that was above all in the area of theology and epistemology (avant la lettre), not so much in the area of cosmology. His cosmological views have to be reconstructed from about a dozen lines of poetry (21B27-33 D-K), the contexts of which are generally obscure, and about the same number of doxographical fragments, most of which are derived from Aetius (21A36-47). The focal point of this article will be precisely on the area of doxography. A demonstration will be given of how our knowledge of the views of Presocratic philosophy can be very strongly determined by our understanding of how
Phronesis – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1989
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