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The Ai Khanoum Papyrus, Xenocrates’and Aristotle’s Fragment: Some Textual and Exegetical Suggestions

Authors: Davide Pasanisi;

The Ai Khanoum Papyrus, Xenocrates’and Aristotle’s Fragment: Some Textual and Exegetical Suggestions

Abstract

In questo contributo intendo ricostruire lo stato dell’arte concernente il papiro di Ai Khanoum, rinvenuto in Afghanistan nel 1977, che riporta il frammento di un dialogo di argomento platonico, risalente alla seconda metà del III sec. a.C. Ripercorrendo gli studi che se ne sono occupati, si portano nuovi argomenti a sostegno di alcune proposte esegetiche: viene in particolare abbracciata la teoria secondo la quale la dottrina discussa nel breve testo sarebbe da ricondurre a Senocrate, scolarca dell’Accademia dopo Platone e Speusippo; si appoggia inoltre la posizione degli studiosi che attribuiscono il frammento al perduto De philosophia aristotelico, portato probabilmente ad Ai Khanoum nel III sec. a.C. dal peripatetico Clearco di Soli. L’analisi si avvale inoltre di una nuova proposta di ricostruzione del testo greco, più vicina alle tracce di inchiostro visibili nelle foto dell’originale (ormai disperso), nonché di una conseguente nuova traduzione italiana che tenga conto delle particolarità e delle asperità del testo greco.

In this article, I intend to reconstruct the current state of research concerning the Ai Khanoum papyrus, found in Afghanistan in 1977, which contains a fragment of a dialogue on a Platonic subject dating from the second half of the 3rd century BCE. By reviewing existing studies, I present new arguments in support of certain exegetical proposals. In particular, I adopt the theory that the doctrine discussed in this brief text can be traced back to Xenocrates, the scolarch of the Academy after Plato and Speusippus. Additionally, I support the position of those scholars who attribute the fragment to the lost Aristotelian work De philosophia, likely brought to Ai Khanoum in the 3rd century BCE by the Peripatetic Clearchus of Soli. This analysis also incorporates a newly proposed reconstruction of the Greek text, which is more closely aligned with the ink traces visible in photographs of the now-lost original, as well as a subsequent new Italian translation that accounts for the peculiarities and roughness of the Greek text.

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Aristotele, Senocrate, Clearco di Soli, Ai Khanoum, De Philosophia, Ai Khanoum, Clearco di Soli, Aristotle, Xenocrates, Clearchus of Soli, Aristotle, Xenocrates, Clearchus of Soli, Ai Khanoum, De philosophia, De Philosophia, Aristotele, Senocrate

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