Oenopides of Chius. A survey of the modern literature with a collection of the ancient testimonia

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Reports on Oenopides are collected in section 41 of Diels–Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 8th edition, vol. I, 393–395. 1 Some of the fragments in the Diels–Kranz collection have been contested. It has been suggested that apart from the Oenopides of Chius of the 5th c. BCE there must have been at least another later Oenopides. As the name Oenopides features already in Homer, 2 there is nothing inherently impossible in the suggestion that there could have been more than one important figure in Antiquity with this name. I will discuss these suggestions one by one in detail below. The upshot of these discussions will be that although some of the testimonies may raise doubts–and indeed, at least one of them, fr. 12, raises serious doubts–, every one of them may nevertheless have been intended as a report about the 5th c. BCE Oenopides. The section in Diels–Kranz is not divided into A and B fragments. Apart from the one or two gnomic sayings attributed to Oenopides (fr. 4, and perhaps its sequel in the Florilegium Monacense), the Greek phrase quoted and then translated into Latin by Macrobius in the Saturnalia (I 17. 31= fr. 7) and the terminological point provided by
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Pages1-37
Number of pages39
StatePublished - 2008

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NameMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Preprint-Reihe ; 327.

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