Grotius and Stobaeus

Grotiana

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-126

  Miller, Jon ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early modern ethics; Grotius; Neo stoicism; Stobaeus; Stoic ethics

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EID: 62949210468     PISSN: 01673831     EISSN: 18760759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187607508X366481     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. The other two are Book III of Cicero's De finibus and Book VII of Diogenes Laertius. For an excellent overview of Stobaeus's importance to Stoicism, see Julia Annas' introduction in Etica stoica: Ario Didimo, Diogene Laerzio, ed. and tr. by Carlo Natali, intr. by Julia Annas (Rome: Laterza, 1999). More on all of this will be said in section four of my paper
2. For more on Grotius and the Stoics, see above all Grotius and the Stoa, ed. by Hans Blom and Laurens Winkel (Assen: Van Gorcum, 2004)
3. This overview is derived entirely from other secondary sources. The best recent discussion is David E. Hahm, 'The Ethical Doxography of Arius Didymus', Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, Tl I-II, ... vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1972 -), Teil II (Principat), vol. 36.4, pp. 2935-3055
4. I also found Otto Hense, 'Ioannes Stobaios', Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 15 vols (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1894-1978, this vol. 1916), vol. 9.2, cols 2549-86 quite useful
5. For additional sources, see the bibliography at the end of Hahm, 'The Ethical Doxography', pp 3051-3055
6. See for the most recent critical edition of Stobaeus: Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores qui inscribi solent Eclogae physicae et ethicae, ed. by Curtius Wachsmuth, 2 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884)
7. The most important study of Stobaeus's editorial practises remains S. Luria, 'Entstellungen des Klassikertextes bei Stobaios', Rheinisches Museum, vol. 78 (1929), pp. 81-104
8. See Ioannis Stobaei Collectiones Sententiarum, ed. by Victor Trincavellius (Venice: Bartholomaei Zanetti, 1536)
9. and Konrad Gesner, Sententiae ex thesauris Graecorum delectae quarum autores circiter ducentos & quinquaginta citat... (Basil: Ioannis Oporini, 1549); Gesner also published editions of the Florilegium in 1543 and 1559
10. See W. Canter, Eclogarum libri duo quorum prior physicas, posterior ethicas complectitur... (Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1575)
11. See Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius, ed. by P.C. Molhuysen and others, 17 vols. (The Hague, 1928-2001), vol. II, p. 15
12. Indeed, according to his biographer Jean Lévesque de Burigny, Grotius had already formed this interest 'when very young'. See Jean Lévesque de Burigny, The Life of the truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius, (London: A. Millar, 1754; orig. in French, tr. unknown), III.4
13. See Hugo Grotius, Dicta poetarum quae apud Io. Stobæum exstant; emendata et Latino carmine reddita ab Hugone Grotio. Accesserunt Plutarchi et Basilii Magni de usu Græcorum poetarum libelli (Paris: Buon, 1623) for full details
14. See J. ter Meulen and P.J.J. Diermanse, Bibliographie des écrits imprimés de Hugo Grotius (The Hague: Nijhoff 1950), 172
15. I am using Williams's translation - De Jure Praedae Commentarius. Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty. A Translation of the Original Manuscript of 1604, tr. by G.L. Williams and W.H. Zeydel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950) - as I don't think it is important to cite the original Latin. All page references are to this translation
16. See August Meineke, 'Zu Stobaeus, Sokrates', Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen, vol. 13 (1859), p. 564
17. See Hermann Diels, Doxographi Graeci (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1879), pp. 69-88
18. See T. Göransson, Albinus, Alcinous, Arius Didymus (Göteborg: Ekblad, 1995)
19. and Brad Inwood, 'Review of Göransson, Albinus', Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 95.12.8 (1995)
20. For more assessment, see Jaap Mansfeld and David T. Runia, Aëtiana the method and intellectual context of a doxographer (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
21. Reflecting its importance, several new translations have been published in recent years. See Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, 2nd edn, ed. and tr. by Brad Inwood and Lloyd Gerson (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997)
22. and Arius Didymus: Epitome of Stoic Ethics, ed. and tr. by Arthur J. Pomeroy (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999)
23. For more, see Annas, 'Introduzione', in Etica stoica, ed. by Natali and especially A.A. Long, 'Arius Didymus and the Exposition of Stoic Ethics', in On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: the Work of Arius Didymus, ed. by W.W. Fortenbaugh (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 1983), pp. 44-51
24. Long, 'Arius Didymus', p. 51