Plutarch's science of natural problems: a study with commentary on "Quaestiones naturales"
In his 'Quaestiones naturales', Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather pecul...
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| Summary: | In his 'Quaestiones naturales', Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, and answers pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. 0By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch?s natural scientific programme and, the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general |
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Acknowledgements ii
Prologue
Plutarch and the history of science: the case of Quaestiones
naturales 15
1. Plato, Plutarch and scientific infancy 18
2. Date and chronology of Quaestiones naturales: a ‘life’s
work’? 24
3. The value of Plutarch’s natural problems 30
4. Classical philology and the petrification of science 46
5. Status quaestionis 51
6. Note on translations and abbreviations 53
Introduction
I. Problems, problems, problems (and Aristotelian precedents) 61
1.1. Quaestiones naturales and the Aristotelian genre and
tradition of natural problems 61
1. Preliminary remarks on Plutarch’s
Naturwissenschaft 61
2. Quaestiones naturales: the work of a Plutarchus
Aristotelicusl 67
3. The genre of problems and the Aristotelian tradition
of natural problems 75
4. Internal organisation of Plutarch’s natural problems
(micro structure) 84
5. Coherent reading in Quaestiones naturales and
convivales (macrostructure) 92
6. The title and its programmatic value 102
1.2. Problems related to Plutarch’s scientific discourse no
1. Trifles unworthy of Plutarch? Some remarks on
authenticity no
2. The rhetoric of scientific discourse according to
Plutarch 112
3. The problem of style 117
4. The problem of morality 119
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CONTENTS
5. A ‘generic’ solution 127
6. Conclusion and new questions 129
2. The position of Quaestiones naturales in the corpus
Plutarcheum 131
2.1. Scientific traits in the corpus Plutarcheum 131
1. Intellectual and literary interest of natural
phenomena 132
2. Cluster analysis in Quaestiones naturales 138
3. Scientific digressions in the Vitae 141
4. Indirect references to Quaestiones naturales 148
2.2. A comparative study of Quaestiones naturales and
Quaestiones convivales 150
1. The level of elocutio 151
2. The level of dispositio 156
3. The level of inventio 159
2.3. Hypomnematic text genetics of Quaestiones naturales
and Quaestiones convivales 161
1. Historicity and fiction in Quaestiones convivales 162
2. Problems and personal notes 165
3- Zetetic autonomy in Quaestiones naturales 173
2.4. Opening up Plutarch’s zetetic archive 177
1. The issue of publication: problems as functional
literature 177
2. Classification and overlap 182
3. Conclusion and new questions 184
3. Quaestiones naturales and zetetic παιδεία 187
3.1. Sitz im Leben readership and educational context 187
1. Natural problems and philosophical σχολή i88
2. Plutarch’s academy 190
3. Digestive discussions and problematic promenades 195
4. Quaestiones naturales as school text: technicality and
complexity 204
5. The dialogue between author and reader: vivacity and
historicity 212
3.2. Quaestiones naturales as a preamble to metaphysics 219
1. Natural problems as a means of exercising the mind 219
2. Natural problems as a means of easing the mind 225
3. Conclusion and new questions 232
4. Plutarch’s Platonic world view: the aetiological design of
Quaestiones naturales and its scientific context 235
4.1. Science and its foes? The ancient scientific value of
CONTENTS 9
Quaestiones naturales 235
4.1.1. Saving popular beliefs: the wonders and paradoxes
of nature 235
1. Natural problems and the fabric of strangeness 237
2. Democritus and the cucumber 244
3. Plutarch’s popular beliefs: anti-Aristotelian and
anti-Stoic dynamics 248
4.1.2. Plutarch’s dualistic causality: rationalising the
divine and the use of myth and poetry 258
1. Plato’s scientific revolution 258
2. Science, religion and mythology 264
3. Science and poetry 274
4.2. Constmcting scientific authority: between continuity,
ingenuity and innovation 278
4.2.1. Character and use of the scientific tradition 279
1. Quotations from scientific prose authors 279
2. Problematisation of scientific knowledge 288
4.2.2. Scientific innovation and performance 291
1. A note on the sociology of knowledge and
izaiSeia 291
2. The pragmatics of Plutarch’s scientific
ingenuity and creativity 293
4.3. Plutarch’s scientific methodology: a rough guide to
explaining natural phenomena 299
4.3.1. Material principles and natural processes 299
1. Material principles 301
2. Natural processes 306
4.3.2. Towards the limits of natural science 312
1. A ‘sceptical’ Plutarch: iyazzipia, btcoxy and
svXafieict 313
2. Truth and probability in Quaestiones
naturales 321
3. Sense perception and the issue of autopsy in
Quaestiones naturales 328
4.3.3. Logical-rhetorical dynamics 339
1. Contradiction, non-contradiction and
aetiological freedom 340
2. Aetiological comprehensiveness and
pluricausality 345
3. Aetiological subtlety and sophistication 349
4.3.4. Uniformity and technicality of the scientific
terminology 354
1. Let’s talk science: the birth and use of technical
vocabulary 355
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