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5.5 X 9.5 Three Lines.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19728-1 - Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy Myrto Hatzimichali Index More information General index Academy, Academics 26–7, 54, 55, 65, 90, on Aristotle’s Categories 44–5 176 On the Nile 46–7 see also Eudorus of on Stoic criterion of truth 84, 86, Alexandria 175 Aristophanes of Byzantium Aenesidemus list of Plato’s works 73 and Alexandria 60, 70 on Plato and Epicurus 34–5 doxographical activity 61, 100 Aristotelianism, revival of 42, 46, 161 rejection of Academy 61 Aristotle 3, 134, 171 Aetius¨ (doxographer) 104 Categories, exegesis of see Aristo of Alcinous (Platonist) 92, 96, 117 Alexandria; Eudorus of Alexandria Alexander of Aphrodisias 136, 143, 144, 160 dubious claim on solids filling up space source of Simplicius’ reports on Potamo 159 158 exegesis by non-Peripatetics 71 Alexandria form 116 first-century bc intellectual trends 64–6 Nicomachean Ethics 127, 130 grammar 31–2 on bodily and external goods 132, home to philosophical revivals 182 138 library 25, 26, 28, 29–30, 34 on ‘critical faculty’ 83 medicine 30–1 selection of premises 16 Museum 29, 39 systematisation of Presocratic principles Potamo’s membership of 79 104 allegiance, philosophical 9, 14 Arius Didymus 125 Anaxagoras 140, 141 authorship of doxography 64 Andronicus of Rhodes 43, 44 relationship with Augustus 62–3 Antiochus of Ascalon 1, 3, 98, 112, 113, 124 Asclepiades of Myrlea 32 and Lucullus 37–8, 41 Aspasius 144 difference from Potamo 178 atomism, rejected by Potamo 175 life in Philodemus’ Syntaxis 42 authority on ‘agreement’ among the ancients 4, 108, eclecticism as a rejection of 4, 10, 16, 176 177 see also syncretism revival of 24 on happy and ‘happiest’ life 133, 138 ‘school’ at Alexandria 39–40 Boethus of Sidon (Peripatetic) 44 Arcesilaus 82 Boethus of Sidon (Stoic) 85, 86 archai see principles Brucker, Jakob 10, 12, 180 Aristarchus of Samothrace 28, 32, 65 Burnyeat, Myles 91 on linguistic issues in Plato 73 Aristo of Alexandria 40 Callimachus 33 conversion to Peripatos 42 Carneades 90, 131 192 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19728-1 - Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy Myrto Hatzimichali Index More information General index 193 Chrysippus 85 Eratosthenes of Cyrene 35 Cicero 1, 90, 108, 111, 118, 120, 124, 132, 174 Euclid 74, 179 credited with new concept of quality 112 five postulates 144 on intellectual freedom 176–7 Eudorus of Alexandria 1 Clement of Alexandria 15, 17, 69 as an Academic 54–6 Cousin, Victor 11–12 influence from Antiochus 52, 55 Cratippus of Pergamum 42 neo-Pythagoreanism 58 criterion of truth 7, 172, 174 One above Monad and Dyad 59, 145 accuracy 88–9 on Aristotle’s Categories and Metaphysics agent/instrument distinction 84, 87, 93, 98 55–6 Theaetetus as source for 92, 173 on Plato’s Timaeus 57 as human faculty 82, 86 Platonism 53, 58 as ‘impact’ 99 see also relativism rivalry with Aristo 53 complex division in Sextus Empiricus 95, 100 Fraser, Peter 36 key issue in Hellenistic period 82 Frede, Michael 2, 4 Critolaus 109 Galen 15–18, 180 Diderot, Denis 10, 12 geometry Didymus 32, 71 and principle of place see principles Dio of Alexandria 40, 55 illustrations (diagrams) 149, 153 loyalty to ‘Old Academy’ 42, 47 importance for physics 162 role in public life 48 proof in 153, 161 Diogenes of Apollonia 19 pyramid, problems with completing Diogenes Laertius 3, 63 space 159 antiquarian interests 70 Pythagorean 155, 161 exaggeration of Potamo’s scope of Glucker, John 36, 37, 40, 75 borrowings 171 god 106, 110, 112, 123 prologue 5 goods, division of 129 see also happiness treatment of Potamo as afterthought 67, external 165 169 dogma, absence in eclecticism 176, hairesis see sect 180 happiness 125, 128 see also end; life Donini, Pierluigi 12, 14 role of bodily and external things in 132, 134, 136–7 elements see also principles Heraclitus on Pythagoras 19 and principles 142–3 Hermippus of Smyrna 34 number 140, 146 lists of philosophers’ works 34 shape 147–8 Horace 17 end, moral 7, 165, 173 see also happiness key issue in Hellenistic philosophy 124 impressions, cognitive see Stoics Potamo’s ambiguous formula for 138 Ephesus, philosophers honoured at 77 Kant, Emmanuel 10 Epicurus 121 criterion of truth (yardstick/straightedge) lexica of synonyms 165–6 83, 86, 98 life, perfect/complete 128, 174 see also end; emphasis on ‘elementary exposition’ 74–5 happiness Potamo’s debt to 179 Long, A. A. 87, 92, 138 on ‘jumbled’ philosopher 18–19 Lucullus see Antiochus of Ascalon pleasure, rejected from moral end by Potamo 126, 175 Magna Moralia 134 topos as first principle 119, 124 medicine see sect, medical; Alexandria © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19728-1 - Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy Myrto Hatzimichali Index More information 194 General index Middle Platonism 71, 114 principles 7, 103, 172, 174 see also elements mind 91, 93, 94 commensurate vs two-tier system 105–6, 113 Neoplatonism 2, 12, 13, 72 dualist account of 107, 109 matter, undifferentiated 112 Panaetius 3, 4 place, and geometrical properties of patronage 2, 25, 31, 37, 44 bodies 162 Peripatetics 25, 109 as universal prerequisite cause 120 division of goods 129, 132 ontological importance of 120–1 on material qualities 123 quality, akin to Aristotelian form 116 on the criterion 98 causal role of 117 Philo of Alexandria 1, 4, 13, 18, 61 Proclus 72, 154 Philo of Larissa 39, 55 on the meaning of stoicheiosis 74 Philodemus 3, 18 Ptolemy (astronomer) 14, 93 acquaintance with Antiochus and his Puglia, Enzo 42, 43, 52 pupils 50–1 Pyrrho, Pyrrhonism 70, 82, 97, 100, 133 presence in Alexandria 51–2 Pythagoras, Pythagoreans 3, 109 philosophy Monad as ultimate principle 145 decentralisation 26–7, 181 numbers derived from the Monad 143 division 7, 81 theorem on planes completing space history 3, 11, 24, 170, 175 154 successions 70, 170 Philostratus the ‘sophist’ 63, 65 quality see principles phrases, prepositional 91, 93, 103, 105, 107, 120, 122, 124, 137, 179 receptacle see Plato, Timaeus anomaly in Potamo’s scheme for relativism 101 principles 113 Rescigno, Andrea 69, 143 scholastic proliferation of 107, 122, 182 place see principles scepticism, rejected by Potamo 84, 175 placita 67 comparison with eclecticism 176, 177 Plato 3, 4, 130, 171 school, philosophical 2, 26, 36, 76, 183 see Forms 114, 115, 118 also sect as god’s thoughts 115 sect 2, 17, 75–6, 81 on criterion 82–3 aspect of philosopher’s identity 77 plural Republics 72–3 earlier sects presupposed by Eclectic sect Potamo’s commentary on 71, 72–3 170, 171 Theaetetus 91, 99–100 medical 15, 21–3 anonymous commentary on, 88, 92 philosophical 4, 5, 6, 15, 170 Timaeus 107, 113, 117, 118, 119, 123, 161 Sedley, David 3, 14, 61, 100, 113 construction of regular solids 147 Seneca the Younger 115, 120, 122 derivation of elements from triangles senses 89, 93, 94 146 Sextus Empiricus 95, 96, 102, 104, 120, 175 receptacle 118 Sotion of Alexandria 35 ‘unwritten doctrines’ 145 Stoics 15 Platonism 92, 115, 182 see also Middle and Potamo’s bipartition of criterion Platonism; Neoplatonism 84–5, 87–8, 92 Plotinus 12 classification of goods 130 Plutarch 1, 14 debt of epistemology to Theaetetus 92 pneuma 22 dissent on the criterion 85–7 Posidonius 3, 23, 85, 98 on cognitive impression 83, 86, 88 Potamo of Mitylene (orator) 163–4 on passive and active principles 106 prepositions see phrases on quality as portion of pneuma 109, 112 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19728-1 - Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy Myrto Hatzimichali Index More information General index 195 on right action 128 Tarrant, Harold 53, 89, 100 on value attached to ‘indifferents’ 133, Theon of Alexandria, Stoic commentary 135 64 on ‘wholes’ 106 terminology, influence of 172 void 106, 120, 148 theory of language 167 Potamo’s position on 121 virtue sufficient for happiness 127, 131, 132 Xenarcus of Seleuceia 43 Strato of Lampsacus 110 Xenocrates 137 syncretism 12, 13, 138 compared with eclecticism 177–8 Zeller, Eduard 2, 13, 58 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19728-1 - Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy Myrto Hatzimichali Index More information Index of passages cited AELIAN On the Heavens Varia historia 3.4.302b10–11 140 7.21 43 3.4.302b20–30 140–1 AETIUS¨ 3.8.306b3–9 148 1.3.21 115 Physics 4.9.2 89 1.7.191b20 116 ALCINOUS Posterior Analytics Didaskalikos 1.25.86a33–5 144 4.1–2 92–3 Topics ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS 1.14.105a34-b18 16 Mantissa (Supplement to On the Soul) 1.18.108b28–31 143 20.160.12–13 136 ATHENAEUS On Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1.22d 79n.37 59.6–8 56 1.34b 47–8 ‘AMMONIUS’ 4.184b-c 28, 79n.37 188 p. 49 Nickau 166–7 AUGUSTINE ANONYMUS COMMENTATOR on De civitate Dei Plato’s Theaetetus 7.28 114 iii.23–32 89 APULEIUS CALCIDIUS De interpretatione On Plato’s Timaeus 13.193 46 293 107 ARISTOCLES CICERO Fr. 4 Chiesara 60, 70, 74 Academica ARISTOTLE 1.22 133 Metaphysics 1.24 108, 111, 118 1.5.986a15–21 143 1.26–9 111 1.6.988a9–11 56 1.27 112 5.3.1014a35–6 142 1.33 132 Nicomachean Ethics 1.35 132 1.7.1098a7–8 134n.115 De finibus 1.7.1098a16–18 126 2.68 132 1.8.1098b12–15 130 4.49–50 133 1.8.1098b24–6 134–5 5.75 165 1.8.1099a31-b8
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