D. M. Spitzer - Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy: In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

This engaging set of papers on ancient thought, from the period of the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, comes at its topics from interesting and surprising perspectives. Several chapters raise questions of particular interest: What is philosophy? How did it arise? How has it reshaped human life?

Ronald Polansky,Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Duquesne University

Anthony Preus, a stalwart champion of Ancient Greek Philosophy, has fostered an invaluable community for thousands of scholars in Ancient Philosophy. Everyone currently working in Greek Philosophy is in his debt. The range of this collections sixteen chapters offers a fitting tribute to Preus ongoing presence in Ancient Philosophy.

Michael M. Shaw,Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley University, Co-Director, Ancient Philosophy Society

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars.

The books 16 chapters address an array of topics and themes, extending from the formation of philosophy from its first stirrings in archaic Greek as well as Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Indian sources, through central concepts in ancient Greek philosophy and literatures of the classical period and into the Hellenistic age. Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy offers both in-depth, rigorous, attentive investigations of canonical texts in Western philosophy, such as Platos Phaedo , Gorgias , Republic , Phaedrus , Protagoras and the Metaphysics , De Caelo , Nichomachean Ethics , On Generation and Corruption of Aristotles corpus, as well as inquiries that reach back into the rich archives of the Mediterranean Basin and forward into the traditions of classical philosophy beyond the ancient world.

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy is of interest to students and scholars working on different aspects of ancient Greek philosophy, as well as ancient philosophy, more broadly.

D. M. Spitzer is an independent scholar (USA). His work on early Greek thinking has appeared in journals such as Research in Phenomenology , Epoch , Ancient Philosophy . Spitzer has published two other anthologies: Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation (with Paulo Oliveira) and Philosophys Treason .

Recent titles include:

Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory

Edited by Martine De Marre and Rajiv Bhola

Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy

Edited by Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen

Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt

Edited by Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi, and Jinyu Liu

Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome

Realities and Discourses

Edited by Filippo Carl-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet, and Carlos Machado

Politics in the Monuments of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar

Eleonora Zampieri

Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great

Andrew J. Pottenger

The War Cry in the Graeco-Roman World

James Gersbach

Religion and ApuleiusGolden Ass

The Sacred Ass

Warren S. Smith

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy

In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

Edited by D. M. Spitzer

For more information on this series, visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Monographs-in-Classical-Studies/book-series/RMCS

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy

In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

Edited by D. M. Spitzer

First published 2023

by Routledge

4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge

605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2023 selection and editorial matter, D. M. Spitzer; individual chapters, the contributors.

The right of D. M. Spitzer to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-1-032-25711-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-25713-6 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-28465-9 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/b22846

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India

For Tony, in gratitude and appreciation for your wisdom touched with genuine compassion as a teacher, mentor, colleaguean inspiration

. ,

D. M. Spitzer

Gerard Naddaf

D. M. Spitzer

Robert Hahn

Lewis Trelawny-Cassity

Christopher Moore

Mara Anglica Fierro

Anne Ashbaugh

Carlos Cortissoz

Elizabeth Jelinek

Pierre Pellegrin

Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Thomas M. Olshewsky

Andrey Darovskikh

J. J. Mulhern

Mark R. Wheeler

John Thorp

23 May 2013: Two gnomons are set several yards apart in the ground next to the base of a pyramid at Giza, one at the end of the pyramids shadow

23 May 2018: Two gnomons are set several yards apart in the ground next to the base of a pyramid, one at the end of the pyramids shadow

Pyramid measurement when shadow = height. Similar right triangles [isosceles right triangles]

Pyramid measurement when shadow height. Similar right triangles [scalene right triangles]

Plan view of a possible reconstruction of Anaximanders sundial (left); side view of gnomon (right)

[Left] Sighting the rising sun on the winter solstice. [Right] Sighting the setting sun on the winter solstice

Identifying summer and winter solstice, and the equinox, by the local noon shadow marking on the sundial

Circles made using the radius distance of local noon shadows to gnomon

[Left] From archaic Temple of Apollo at Didyma anathyrsis with round empolion. [Right] From Samos Dipteros II with rectangular empolion

[Left] Sighting the rising sun on the summer solstice. [Right] Sighting the setting sun on the summer solstice

[Left] Sighting the rising sun on the winter solstice. [Right] Sighting the setting sun on the winter solstice

Possible reconstruction of Anaximanders frame of the map of the inhabited earth, using markers of rising and setting of the sun on summer and winter solstice, and equinox

Anaximander might have calculated the exact time of the equinox by bisecting the angle formed from sunrise on summer and winter solstices

Helen participates in the Form Beauty

A particular fever participates in the Form Fever. The Form Fever entails the Form Illness