By Jaap Mansfeld
The research of the "Elenchos" (c. 225 CE) consists of the complete diversity of historic interpretative traditions concerned about Greek Philosophy, from Aristotle to the past due Neoplatonists. the current inquiry areas Hippolytus' very important experiences concerning the Greek philosophers within the context of those traditions and so is ready to remove darkness from not just what he has to provide but in addition to extend our wisdom of the traditions he relies on. For him the Pythagoreanizing present in Pre-Neoplatonism is of paramount significance. as a result, he constructs a succession ("diadoche") beginning with Pythagoras and together with Empedocles, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and argues that the "diadoche" of the Gnostic heresiarchs is parasitical on its Pythagorean predecessor. a brand new review of the assets used the 1st severe test given that that of Diels in 1879 hinges on an research of Hippolytus' approach to presentation, that's a mix of cento and exegesis geared to his anti-Gnostic purpose."
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Philos. , ap. D. G. 2 ff. They are also presupposed by other authors discussed by von Kienle,ll and by a rather important critical witness he missed, viz. the Aristotelian scholar Aristocles of Messana ap. Eus. E. 1: Oi. ecrav. oi. Oe 1tept nu9ay6pav a1te1CptHjf VI 13, Ch. VIII 2. 53 Cf. g. von Fritz (1940) and Minar (1942). 54 This is not incompatible with the chronology of Apollodorus, cf. FGrH 244F32 ap. Diog. Laert. VIII 52 (Vorsokr. 31A1). 55 Diels D. G. 145 and Marcovich point out that 'tOll'trov pertains to Empedocles and Heraclitus. For the links between the chapters on Pythagoras, Empedocles and Heraclitus in the Philosophoumena and the Stoic aspects of the doctrine attributed to Empedocles/Heraclitus see also Hershbell (1973) 101. s-6 A tenet ascribed to Aristotle as well, Ref. 10 See the edition by Daiber (1980). g. Aet. 6. 11 According to Diels' restored text, printed also by Mau. I here accept this emendation, though not without misgivings. If we leave what is now Aet. 9 (ps. Plut. p. Plut. I 3, the latter's Italian succession would include Heraclitus and Hippasus, Epicurus and Democritus, Empedocles, Socrates and Plato, Aristoteles, and Zeno of Citium (whether we should also include the other philosophers added to Aet. I 3 by Diels from Stobaeus, or should stick to Diels' order, is another matter).