Cicero's so-called Academica is a significant text for European cultural and intellectual history: as a substantial and self-contained body of evidence for one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity, as evidence for Stoic thought presented on its own terms and in interaction with objections, as a key text in a broader tradition which is devoted to the possibility of knowledge arising from perceptual experience, and as evidence for the fate of Plato's Academy in its final phase as a functioning school. This volume is the first detailed commentary on this set of texts since Reid's, published in 1885. It takes full account of the scholarly debate to date and seeks to elucidate the dialogues and fragmentary remains from a philosophical, historical, literary, and linguistic point of view.
Author(s): Tobias Reinhardt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 1118
City: Oxford
Cover
Cicero’s Academici libri and Lucullus: A Commentary with Introduction and Translations
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Note on the Text
Note on Translations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Opening
2. Philosophy and History in Acad.
3. Acad. within the Ciceronian Corpus
4. Academic Positions and Academic Arguments
4.1 The Clitomachean Position
4.2 Mitigated Scepticism
4.3 The Roman Books View
4.4 Metrodorus’ Position
5. The Debate about the Cataleptic Impression
5.1 Definitions
5.2 The Interpretation of the Second Clause
5.3 The Stoics: Epistemological Internalists, Externalists, or Something in Between?
5.4 The Interpretation of the Third Clause
5.5 Cataleptic Impression: Perceptual or also Non-perceptual?
5.6 Ἀπαραλλαξία
5.6.1 Dreams and Madness
5.6.2 Very Similar Objects
5.7 Arrangement
5.8 Generalization
Appendix—Ἀπαραλλαξία in the Different Versions of the Core Argument in Acad.
6. The Carneadean πιθανόν and Cicero’s probabile
6.1 The Evidence from Sextus
6.2 ἔμϕασις before Carneades
6.3 Back to Sextus, M. 7
6.4 Stoic πιθανά
6.5 The Evidence from Cicero
6.6 The πιθανόν/probabile, Clitomacheanism, and Mitigated Scepticism
7. Constructions of History and of Historical Figures in Acad.
7.1 Sceptical Histories
7.2 Antiochus’ Construction of the Old Academy
7.3 Socrates
7.4 Plato
7.5 Arcesilaus
8. Cicero’s Clitomacheanism
9. Editions of Acad. and Their Reconstruction
9.1 Evidence from Cicero’s Letters to Atticus on the Creation of Acad.
9.2 Ciceronian Editions of Acad. and Their Reconstruction
9.3 Sources
9.3.1 Luc.
9.3.2 Ac. 1
9.3.3 Earlier Scholarship
9.4 The Title(s)
9.5 The Hortensius and Acad.
10. The Linguistic Form of Acad.
10.1 Impressions I: uidere, uideri, uisum
10.2 Impressions II: uisio, species, nota, signum
10.3 ‘Beliefs’
11. Table of Contents for Ac. 1 and Luc.
Translations
Letters Documenting the Creation of Acad.
Academicus Primus
Fragments and Testimonia
Lucullus
Commentary
Academicus Primus
Fragments and Testimonia
Lucullus
Appendix 1: Non-Ciceronian Texts on the Sceptical Academy
Texts
Translations
1. Galen, Opt. doctr. 1
2. Plutarch, Sto. rep. 10, 1037b–c
3. Sextus, P.H. 1.220–35
4. Gellius, N.A. 11.5.1–8
5. Anon., Proleg. in Plat. 7.10–14 Westerink
6. Anon., Proleg. in Plat. 10 init. Westerink
7. Phot., Bibl. 212, 170a14–17 (= A3 Polito)
8. Phot., Bibl. 212, 170a17–38 (= B3 Polito)
Commentary
Appendix 2: Numenius on the Academy
Texts
Translations
Commentary
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
Index of Greek Terms
Index of Latin Terms
