Empedocles on the Origin of Plants: P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666, sections d, b and f

Simon Trepanier

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Empedocles on the Origin of Plants: P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666, sections d, b and f

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This study seeks to improve the text of section d of the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles. It builds on the reconstruction advanced by Janko 2004, who proposes attributing sections f and b to the same column as section d and that all three sections are from column 12 of the ancient roll. My main departure from Janko will be to argue that the unity of lines d 11-18 plus sections b and f can be better shown if we assume that the passage is a description of the origins of plants alone, not of animals or of living things in general.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition
Subtitle of host publication	A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources
Editors	Christian Vassallo
Place of Publication	Berlin; Boston
Publisher	De Gruyter
Chapter	11
Pages	271-297
Volume	Studia Praesocratica
ISBN (Electronic)	9783110666106
ISBN (Print)	9783110663211
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110666106-012
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2019

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Empedocles on the Origin of Plants: P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666, sections d, b and f. / Trepanier, Simon.
Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources. ed. / Christian Vassallo. Vol. Studia Praesocratica Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. p. 271-297.

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