Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the University ... 2016)

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The papyri transmit a part of the testimonia relevant to pre-Socratic philosophy. The ʼCorpus dei Papiri Filosofici‛ takes this material only partly into account. In this volume, a team of specialists discusses some of the most important papyrological texts that are major instruments for reconstructing pre-Socratic philosophy and doxography. Furthermore, these texts help to increase our knowledge of how pre-Socratic thought - through contributions to physics, cosmology, ethics, ontology, theology, anthropology, hermeneutics, and aesthetics - paved the way for the canonic scientific fields of European culture. More specifically, each paper tackles (published and unpublished) papyrological texts concerning the Orphics, the Milesians, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the early Atomists, and the Sophists. For the first time in the field of pre-Socratics studies, several papers are devoted to the Herculanean sources, along with others concerning the Graeco-Egyptian papyri and the Derveni Papyrus. Contents Abbreviations Introduction. The Presocratics from Derveni to Herculaneum: A New Look at Early Greek Philosophy Part I: Orpheus and the Orphic Tradition 1. Two Aspects of the Orphic Papyrological Tradition: PGurob 1 and the Greek Magic Rolls 2. The Opening Lemmas of the Derveni Papyrus 3. Some Controversial Topics in the Derveni Cosmology 4. Pherecydes of Syros in the Papyrological Tradition Part II: Pythagoreanism and Beyond 5. The Papyrological Tradition on Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans 6. Philolaus’ Book(s) in Philodemus’ Index Academicorum 7. Music and Philosophy in Damon of Oa Part III: Heraclitus 8. Column IV of the Derveni Papyrus: A New Analysis of the Text and the Quotation of Heraclitus 9. Heraclitus’ Portrait in Diogenes Laërtius and Philodemus’ On Arrogance Part IV: Empedocles 10. Aphrodite’s Cosmic Power: Empedocles in the Derveni Papyrus 11. Empedocles on the Origin of Plants: PStrasb. gr. inv. 1665–1666, Sections d, b, and f 12. Empedocles in the Herculaneum Papyri: An Update Part V: Anaxagoras and his School 13. Anaxagoras from Egypt to Herculaneum: A Contribution to the History of Ancient ‘Atheism’ 14. Metrodorus the Allegorist as Reflected in Philodemus’ On Poems, Book 2: PHerc. 1676, col. 2 + N 1081, col. 12 (= 61 A 4 DK; Test. 34.3 Lanata) Part VI: Early Atomists 15. Democritus’ Doctrine of Eidola in the Herculaneum Papyri: A Reassessment of the Sources 16. Anaxarchus from Egypt to Herculaneum Part VII: The Sophistic Movement 17. The Authorship of the Derveni Papyrus, A Sophistic Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Language: A Case for Prodicus of Ceos Part VIII: The Papyrological Tradition and Doxographical Questions 18. Lists of Principles and Lists of Gods: Philodemus, Cicero, Aëtius, and Others Indices Index locorum Index nominum antiquorum Index nominum recentiorum