more information - www.cambridge.org/9781107020115 ARISTOTLE, PLATO AND PYTHAGOREANISM IN THE FIRST CENTURY BC This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new direc- tions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century bc, a period inwhichthedominanceexercisedintheHellenisticagebyStoicism, Epicureanism and Academic scepticism gave way to a more diverse andexperimentalphilosophicalscene.Itsdevelopmenthasbeenmuch lesswellunderstood,buthereastronginternationalteamofleading scholarsofthesubjectreconstructkeyfeaturesofthechangedenvi- ronment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greekthinkersoftheperiod,aswellasilluminatingCicero’sengage- ment with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle’s Categories and Plato’s Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in thehistoryofPlatonismandAristotelianism. malcolm schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philos- ophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is co-author (with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven) of the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (1983) and co- editor(withKeimpeAlgra,JonathanBarnes,andJaapMansfeld)of TheCambridgeHistoryofHellenisticPhilosophy(1999).Hisotherpub- licationsincludeAnEssayonAnaxagoras(1980),TheStoicIdeaofthe City(1991;2ndedition,1999),andPlato:PoliticalPhilosophy(2006). ARISTOTLE, PLATO AND PYTHAGOREANISM IN THE FIRST CENTURY BC New Directions for Philosophy edited by MALCOLM SCHOFIELD cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107020115 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Aristotle,PlatoandPythagoreanisminthefirstcenturyBC:newdirectionsforphilosophy/ editedbyMalcolmSchofield. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-02011-5 1.Philosophy,Ancient. 2.Aristotle. 3.Plato. I.Schofield,Malcolm,editorofcompilation. b171.a75 2013 180–dc23 2012025993 isbn978-1-107-02011-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Inmemoriam AnnaEunyoungJuandBobSharples Contents Notesoncontributors pageix Preface xii Introduction xiv 1 ThetextsofPlatoandAristotleinthefirstcenturybc 1 MyrtoHatzimichali 2 PlatonistapproachestoAristotle:fromAntiochusof AscalontoEudorusofAlexandria(andbeyond) 28 RiccardoChiaradonna 3 Boethus’Aristotelianontology 53 MarwanRashed 4 Aristotelianisminthefirstcenturybc:Xenarchusof Seleucia 78 AndreaFalcon 5 Posidoniusashistorianofphilosophy:aninterpretation ofPlutarch,deAnimaeProcreationeinTimaeo22,1023b–c 95 AnnaEunyoungJu 6 AsclepiadesofBithyniaandHeraclidesPonticus:medical Platonism? 118 RobertoPolito 7 TheeclecticPythagoreanismofAlexanderPolyhistor 139 A.A.Long 8 PythagoreanisingAristotle:Eudorusandthe systematisationofPlatonism 160 MauroBonazzi vii viii Contents 9 CiceroandtheTimaeus 187 DavidSedley 10 Plato’sLawsandCicero’sdeLegibus 206 JuliaAnnas 11 OfCicero’sPlato:fictions,Forms,foundations 225 IngoGildenhard Bibliography 276 Indexofpassages 291 Generalindex 301