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306 DAVIDSHNE Presumably. aTTlC aTEp. "without destruction." glossed Ot/T' aaaTov. "nor very destructive." and then replaced the aardvarkian adjective. resulting in the reprobate OUT' aTTlC aTEp. "nor without destruction." In this way corruption is at least plausibly explained. It should. moreover. be noted that avaTOV (avaaTov). "non destructive." was Sophocles' adjective of negative prefix (KaKwv avaToc DC 786. "free of harm"). so that aaaTOV was left to be the intensive "very destructive" just as later in Apollonius-and in Horner earlier. THE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES WASHINGTON. DC 20008
Mouseion. Series III. Vol. 2 (2002) 307-339 ©2002 Mouseion ARISTOXENOS. n EPI 13iwv AND PERIPATETIC BIOGRAPHY CRAIG COOPER An important work on the history of ancient biography. at least in terms of the reaction it generated. was Leo' s Die griechisch-romische Biographie nach ihrer literarischen Form (Leipzig Ig01); most scholars working on the subject have had to come to terms with his conclusions. particularly his attempt to see the origins of biography in the Peripatos. Beginning with an investigation of the literary form of Suetonius' biographies. Leo reconstructed an entire history of the genre. based on a distinction between a Plutarchean and Suetonian form of biography; the former had its origin in the Peripatos. the latter in Alexandria. The Plutarchean form of biography entailed a straightforward chronological narrative of events to illustrate an individual's character and was particularly well-suited to the lives of generals or statesmen. The Suetonian form of biography. developed by Alexandrian grammarians. which Leo labelled"grammatical." was simple. schematic and as such formally resembled the systematic structure of other erudite works on literary figures. Alexandrians. like Kallimachos. Satyros. Hermippos. Leo's so-called "Halbperipatetiker" and Herakleides Lembos. marked a transition from Peripatetic to grammatical biography.' Ultimately. then. all biography in one form or another. in one way or another. had its origin in the Peripatos. In this paper. I would like to return to the problem of Peripatetic biography. particularly as it relates to Aristoxenos. and to the thorny question of what constitutes biography. First. however. I want to address the question of genre. THE QUESTION OF GENRE Leo envisaged a generic distinction between the two forms of biography and attempted to subsume every form of biographical activity under one or other of the generic forms. Hence Theopompos fell under the Peripatetic rubric' and Suetonius fashioned his political biographies along the lines of the "grammatical" bioi which were more suited to the lives of literary figures. The need first to establish genres J Herakleides' epitomes of Hermippos. Satyros and Sotion transformed these highly elaborate literary biographies into biographies of a grammatical form. "from books for the general public to a book for scholarly use"; see Leo (1901) 135· , Or at least was influenced by the Peripatos; see Leo (1901) 110-112. 3°7
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306 DAVIDSHNE<br />
Presumably. aTTlC aTEp. "without destruction." glossed Ot/T' aaaTov.<br />
"nor very destructive." and then replaced the aardvarkian adjective.<br />
resulting in the reprobate OUT' aTTlC aTEp. "nor without destruction."<br />
In this way corruption is at least plausibly explained. It should. moreover.<br />
be noted that avaTOV (avaaTov). "non destructive." was Sophocles'<br />
adjective <strong>of</strong> negative prefix (KaKwv avaToc DC 786. "free <strong>of</strong><br />
harm"). so that aaaTOV was left to be the intensive "very destructive"<br />
just as later in Apollonius-and in Horner earlier.<br />
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