Kyria Doxai Comparison

This sheet grew out of the interest to understand Kyriai Doxai (Principal Doctrines) as a text and not a "list."

This sheet grew out of the interest to understand Kyriai Doxai (Principal Doctrines) as a text and not a "list." The fact that the 1739 text has 44 "doctrines" and not 40, plus individual doctrines are scattered in Vatican Sayings and Diogenes' wall led evidence to there not being a canonical number of divisions in the work.
This spreadsheet provides a comparison as a start.
See this thread for additional information:

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RE: What if Kyriai Doxai was NOT a list?

Following up on a post of mine from Cassius' thread about PDs in narrative form on a list of 44 PDs in a 1739 Greek/Latin translation:

I used a 1739 Greek with Latin translation to compare with the text at Perseus Digital Library:

1739: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nn…id=27021597768674761-1400

Perseus Greek (DL, Book 10): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h…3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D1

Perseus English (DL, Book 10): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h…3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D1

I used the Greek text to compare…

Don

August 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM