Manaichmos

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Manaichmos ( Greek  Μάναιχμος Mánaichmos ) was an ancient Greek philosopher ( Platonist ). His lifetime is unknown.

Manaichmos is known only from a brief entry in the Suda , a Byzantine encyclopedia, dealing with him . According to the Suda, he came either from Alopekonnesos, a city on the Gallipoli peninsula , or from the Marmara island (Greek Prokonnesos ). Therefore he is also called Manaichmos of Alopekonnesos . According to the Suda entry, he wrote philosophical works, including a commentary on Plato's Dialogue Politeia in three books.

Research has attempted, without resounding success, to identify him with other attested persons named Menaichmos (Μέναιχμος), especially with the well-known mathematician Menaichmos , a friend of Plato. The equation with the mathematician was proposed as early as the 19th century. It was represented in the 20th century in particular by François Lasserre , who on this basis made a number of assumptions about the Politeia commentary, but his hypothesis was not able to prevail. The counter-argument is that the author of the Suda entry only knows Manaichmos as a philosopher and Plato commentator and not as a mathematician.

Source text

  • Ada Adler (Ed.): Suidae Lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1933, pp. 317-318 (Adler no. M 140; online )
  • Heinrich Dörrie , Matthias Baltes (ed.): Platonism in antiquity. Volume 3, Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1993, ISBN 3-7728-1155-8 , pp. 46–47 (text of the Suda entry with translation)
  • Marie-Luise Lakmann (Ed.): Platonici minores. 1st century BC - 2nd century AD. Prosopography, fragments and testimony with German translation (= Philosophia antiqua , volume 145). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-31533-4 , pp. 175 f., 610 f.

literature

  • Franco Ferrari: Manaichmos from Alopekonnesos. In: Christoph Riedweg et al. (Hrsg.): Philosophy of the imperial era and late antiquity (= outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity. Volume 5/1). Schwabe, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7965-3698-4 , p. 584
  • Pedro Pablo Fuentes González: Manaichmos d'Alopéconnèse . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 4, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-271-06386-8 , pp. 246-247

Remarks

  1. ↑ This is the common name form in antiquity; the Suda, on the other hand, names not only the philosopher, but also the historian Menaichmos of Sikyon Manaichmos .
  2. ↑ François Lasserre: De Leodamas de Thasos à Philippe d'Oponte , Napoli 1987, pp 546-550.
  3. ↑ Heinrich Dörrie, Matthias Baltes (ed.): The Platonism in the Ancient World , Vol. 3, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1993, p. 203, note 4; see. on this and on the other identification attempts Pedro Pablo Fuentes González: Manaichmos d'Alopéconnèse . In: Richard Goulet (Ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 4, Paris 2005, p. 246 f.
personal data
SURNAME Manaichmos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greek philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH between 450 BC Chr. And 500
DATE OF DEATH between 370 BC Chr. And 500