Heraclitea

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This volume features over 375 texts related to Heraclitus and his teachings, including quotations from his works, dating from the 1st to 2nd century AD, with contributions from figures like Plutarch, Clement, Hippolytus, and Sextus. Volume II. A.2 presents the second part of Traditio (A), focusing on testimonia and quotations that clearly refer to Heraclitus, spanning from Seneca in the 1st century AD to Diogenes Laertius at the end of the 2nd century AD. The 400-page book is organized into 55 chapters, each dedicated to a witness or a group of anonymous witnesses, highlighting significant sections on Seneca, the Pseudo-Heraclitean Letters, the Doxographer Aetius, Plutarch, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus, Sextus Empiricus, and Diogenes Laertius. Each text is structured into five components: internal and external numbering, references to authors and editions, the original text in Greek (or Latin, Armenian), a French translation, and three critical apparatuses. These apparatuses include cross-references to indirect witnesses and parallel texts, references to previous editions of Heraclitus, and manuscript variants with scholarly conjectures.