Doxographe

The activity of a doxographe consists to reproduce and often comment on the remarks, opinions and writings of former or contemporary thinkers. The term doxographe originates in ( doxa opinion, and of graphein to write) the German philologist Hermann Diels.

Very many texts of doxographes, of any origines, enable us to establish the Histoire of a discipline or a thought. Obviously, the study of the signed documents of the hand of doxographe must be particularly meticulous, in order to separate the Mythe from reality, the reformulation and the frank deterioration of the faithful reproduction.

Doxographes famous

The following authors can be doxographe by vocation, it is the case of Diogène Laërce, or by chance, like Origène, by including important doxographic indications with the wire of their texts.

Aetius (Opinions)
Alexandre d' Aphrodise
Aristophane (Clouds)
Aristote (Metaphysical)
Aristoxène
Arnobius Old the (Against the pagan ones)
Arrien (Manual of Epictete, Talks with Epictete)
Aulu-Cold (Nights attics)
Boèce (Geometry, musical Institution)
Celse (Of medicine)
Chalcidius (Comment on Timée)
Cicéron (Of the duties, the destiny, On the nature of the gods, the latest dates of the goods and the evils)

Clement of Alexandria (Stromates)

David (Prolégomènes with Aristote)

Diogène Laërce (Lives, doctrines and sentences of the famous philosophers)

Eusèbe de Césarée (Evangélique Preparation)
Hérodote (Investigations)
Hippias d' Élis
Horace
Hippolyte (Refutation of all the heresies, Philosophoumena)
Irenee (Against the heresies)
Jamblique (pythagoric Life)
Lucien de Samosate
Plato
Plutarque (Parallel Lives)
Porphyry of Tyr
Philodème de Gadara (On the stoical ones, On piety)
Proclos
Pseudo-Galien (Of historia philosophized)
Pseudo-Plutarque (Placita philosophorum)
Sextus Empiricus
Stobée (Eclogae)
Welded It
Origène (Against Celse)
Théophraste
Théodoret de Cyr (Cure of the prejudices of the Greeks)
Timon of Phlionte

See too

Doxographie
Philology

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