1st Edition
Arius Didymus on Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics Text, Translation, and Discussion
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
Biography
William W. Fortenbaugh is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Rutgers University, USA.
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
