As many modern scholars have done, ancient authors usually regarded Heraclitus’ work as hard to understand and often suggested that its obscurity might have been deliberate. Theophrastus, developing the medical and philosophical studies on melancholy of both Hippocrates’ school and Aristotle, attributes the features of his style to a physiological cause. In fragment 233 FHS&G (Diogenes Laertius 9, 6), in fact, he traces the incompleteness of Heraclitus’ work, and the stylistic differences within it, to his excess of black bile, thus providing us with a different image of the Presocratic philosopher.
Il giudizio di Teofrasto su Eraclito: melancolia e scrittura
QUATTROCCHIO, ANNALISA
2013-01-01
Abstract
As many modern scholars have done, ancient authors usually regarded Heraclitus’ work as hard to understand and often suggested that its obscurity might have been deliberate. Theophrastus, developing the medical and philosophical studies on melancholy of both Hippocrates’ school and Aristotle, attributes the features of his style to a physiological cause. In fragment 233 FHS&G (Diogenes Laertius 9, 6), in fact, he traces the incompleteness of Heraclitus’ work, and the stylistic differences within it, to his excess of black bile, thus providing us with a different image of the Presocratic philosopher.
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