The Shelves · Philosophy
Fragments (on Plato's Timaeus, on the Pythagorean One, on ethics)
Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Philosophy
Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placementEudorus of Alexandria
Fragments
Opening words not preserved.
Length: not counted
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Survives in fragments
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedWritten in Alexandria.
On the table: written in Alexandria; no evidence it was in the Library.
Read it today
The fragments are translated and discussed in Dillon, The Middle Platonists (1996).
III · In the show
The show has not yet spoken of this work.
IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references (3)
- Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics 181.10-30 Diels
- Plutarch, On the Generation of the Soul in the Timaeus 1013b
- Stobaeus 2.7.2
Modern scholarship
- J. Dillon, The Middle Platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220, rev. ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).
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FRAGMENTS
Beside it on the table
- Jesus son of Sirach; translated by his grandson, Wisdom of Ben Sira in Greek, with the translator's prologueHebrew c. 180 BCE; Greek after 132 BCE in Egypt · Survives whole
- Wisdom of Solomon1st century BCE - early 1st century CE · Survives whole
- Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretationc. 20–40 CE · Survives whole
- Philo of Alexandria, On the Creation of the Worldc. 20–40 CE · Survives whole