Aëtiana IV: Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography

Product Description
Aëtiana IV: Towards an Edition of the Aëtian Placita: Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium, 1-3 December 2015 provides a critical discussion from various angles by a plurality of authors of the reconstruction of the
Placita and the relevance of the compendium for the history of Greek philosophy.
About the Author
Jaap Mansfeld is emeritus professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in the University of Utrecht. He has published numerous papers and several monographs on ancient philosophy, among which (together with David T. Runia) the three previous volumes of Aëtiana.


David T. Runia is Director of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, and also Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has written widely on ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on the thought of Philo of Alexandria.