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Βίοι παράλληλοι

Ενότητα: Ελληνική Επανάσταση και Συγκρότηση του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Ψηφιοποιημένες συλλογές του Κέντρου Ερεύνης της Ιστορίας του Νεωτέρου Ελληνισμού

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Βίος και Φιλοσοφία: Ο Διογένης Λαέρτιος στο Βυζάντιο. Κριτική εισαγωγή

Ενότητα: Άρθρα του περιοδικού "Φιλοσοφία"

This is the second part of a paper published in Philosophia, 38, 2008, about Bios and Philosophy in Diogenes Laertius. The present article in prolonging relevant elements from the first part focuses on the influence of Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers in Byzantine culture. The mss. of the work come from this era and they belong to two great Byzantine sources: an Italian-Greek and an Eastern tradition of codices. There was also a tradition of Excerpta - one being the Souda - that according to most scholars contributes to our understanding of the original text and also various Byzantine anthologies of philosophical Apophthegmata and Sentences of Laertian origine; there is also the edition of Laertian epigrams - much appreciated by Nietzsche, and more recently by Marcello Gigante -, in the Palatine and the Planudean Anthologies. The paper examines the important studies of Tiziano Doranti on the presence of Laertius' Lives in Byzantium, mostly in the 10th Centu¬ry, but also in the post-Byzantine period with Michael Apostolios' Ionia (15th C...

Βίος και φιλοσοφία κατά τον Διογένη Λαέρτιο

Ενότητα: Άρθρα του περιοδικού "Φιλοσοφία"

The present study begins with an overview of the research about the work of Diogenes Laertius. After stating the modern embarrassment concerning the life and the proper philosophical ideas of Laertius, it continues with the presentation of the discussion on the sources of his work that, although it started back in 19th Century Germany (Quellenuntersuchungen), didn΄t manage to come up with satisfactory conclusions. A summary of the different views is given here together with the portraits of the main writers of the Antiquity that were probably the sources of Laertius (Diodes, Favorinus, Hermippus, Appollodorus, etc.). Richard Goulet tried to introduce an "epistemological rupture" that would solve the sources-problem by pointing to the use of big "documentary blocs" during Laertius΄ composition. There is also the description of Nietzsche΄s contribution to the Laertian problem, not so much because of its philological importance, but with the aim to show how emblematic is the "impurity" and the poetic core of Laertius΄ work for modernism. Next...