Evidence

1. Title of the work: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Famous Philosophers V.22 (title 12); Vita Hesychii (title 14); Ptolemy el-Garib (title 1).

2. Dedication of the work: Stobaeus, Eclogues IV.32.21 (quoting Teles).

3. Self-refutation arguments, witnessed in various texts: Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Aristotle’s Topics II.3 149.9-15; Elias, Prolegomena 3.17-23; David, Prolegomena 9.2-12; Anonymous scholion on Cod.Par.Gr.2064 (pp. ix-xii of CIAG 4.6, ed. Wallies); Suda F 414 (Adler).

4. Iamblichus:

Protrepticus - chapter V; ch. VI; ch. VII; ch. VIII; ch. IX; ch. X; ch. XI; ch. XII. Available for download:

• Chapter VI text, translation, commentary
• Chapter VII text, translation, commentary
• Chapter VIII text, translation, commentary
• Chapter IX text, translation, commentary
• Chapter X text, translation, commentary
• Chapter XI text, translation, commentary
• Chapter XII text, translation, commentary

De Communi Mathematica Scientia - chapter XXII; ch. XXIII; ch. XXVI; ch. XXVII.

• Chapter xxii text, translation, commentary
• Chapter xxiii text, translation, commentary
• Chapter xxvi text, translation, commentary
• Chapter xxvii text, translation, commentary

5. Proclus: Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements Prologue I, chapter 9; ibid., ch. 11; Prologue II, ch. 4.

6. Papyrus evidence: P.Oxy.666 (overlapping Stobaeus, Eclogues III.3.25); P.Oxy.3659; P.Vindob.G.26008.

7. Greek authors:

Alexander of Aphrodisias, preface to On Aristotle’s Prior Analytics I 1.1-6.12

Asclepius of Tralles, On the Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa I.13-42 (Tarán)

Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae VIII 335f

Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 1.7.4 and Miscellanies 6.18.5

Olympiodorus, Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades 119a-120d

Philodemus, On Rhetoric 192-203

Philoponus of Alexandria, On the Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa I.4-49 (Giardina)

Plutarch, Is it right to say ‘Live inconspicuously’? 5-7; On Tranquility 20

Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians II (M. VIII), 466-467

Strabo, Geography 14.5.9, 672c

Themistius, On How the Philosopher Should Speak (Or. 26), 316-321.

8. Cicero:

Hortensius (fragments)

De Finibus II.13.39-40, II.32.106, V.5.12

Tusculan Disputations I.3.94, III.28.69, V.35.101

De Natura Deorum II.20.51-52.

9. Other Latin authors:

Augustine, Against Julian 4.15.78

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy III.8

Boethius, On Differentiae in Topics 2

Censorinus, De die natali 18.11

Chalcidius, On Plato’s Timaeus 3d+ (CCVIII)

Lactantius, Divine Institutes 3.16.396b

Seneca, On the Shortness of Life 1.2

Tertullian, De Anima 46.

10. Proverb collections:

Greek proverbs (ed. Searby).

11. Later ancient protreptics:

{Beyond Aristotle’s Protrepticus: post-classical protreptic discourse mostly offers little evidence about Aristotle’s work. In review: Peripatetic protreptic; Epicurean and Stoic protreptic; specialized protreptic discourses to the arts, including Galen’s Protrepticus; protreptics in Cicero; Seneca’s Protrepticus and protreptic tropes; other Latin exhortations; other ancient Greek protreptics, including Ptolemy’s Almagest, and various commentators in late antiquity; and Christian protreptics. The protreptic arguments of Iamblichus are the main sources of evidence for Aristotle’s Protrepticus; and the protreptics of Cicero also supply some corroboration; but other material of the later ancient protreptic tradition supply only slight and indirect evidence.}

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