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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Aristotle’s Conception of Place and its Reception in the Hellenistic Period
1 Introduction
2 Problems in Aristotle’s account
3 Eudemus of Rhodes
4 Theophrastus of Eresus: frs. 146 and 149 FHSG revisited
5 Strato of Lampsacus
6 Xenarchus of Seleucia, Cleomedes, Alexander of Aphrodisias
7 Sextus Empiricus and Hellenistic discussions ofplace
8 Conclusions
Aspects and Problems of Chrysippus’ Conception of Space
Posidonius on the Void. A Controversial Case of Divergence Revisited
1 Introduction
2 Place, Space and the Void according to the Early Stoics
3 Posidonius on the Void
4 Conclusion
Epicurus on the Void
1 Introduction
2 Bodies and Space
3 Minima
4 Does Space Separate Atoms?
5 Does Space Have Direction?
6 Does Space Provide an Absolute Frameof Reference?
7 Space and Density
8 Conclusion
Space and Movement in Philodemus’ De dis 3: an Anti-Aristotelian Account
1 The text. Philodemus, On Gods 3, col. 8, 5 – col. 11, 7
2 The gods’ dwelling place
3 The refutation of the star gods
4 The motion of the gods
5 The perception of the moving gods
Roman Philosophy under Construction: the Concept of Spatium from Lucretius to Cicero
1 Lucretius and his Roman predecessors
1.1 Space before Lucretius: revolution or continuity?
1.2
1.3
2 Time and space in De rerum natura
2.1 Some statistics
2.2 The temporal uses of spatium
2.3 Spatium as an element of contrast between space and time
2.4 Space, void and place
2.4.1 Position of the problem
2.4.2 An orthodox Lucretius?
2.4.3 Lucretian concepts
2.4.4 Space and void
2.4.4.1 The problem of definition
2.4.4.2 Locus, spatium and inane
3 Cicero as a reluctant space-thinker
3.1 Cicero and temporal spatium
3.2 Cicero’s expression of void
Aenesidemus the Anti-Physicist
contra Νοούμενα: Sextus Empiricus, the Notion of Place and the Pyrrhonian Strategy at Work
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3
4
4.1
4.2
5
6
7
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Doxographical Reverberations of Hellenistic Discussions on Space
1 Four Placita chapters and a parallel
2 On void
3 On place
4 On space
5 Epilogue
Appendix: Texts Aëtius 1, 18 – 20 and 2, 9*
Sigla
Aëtii qui dicitur Naturalium placitorum liber primus
Bibliography
Index locorum
Index nominum antiquiorum
Index nominum recentiorum
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