UID:
almafu_9959202482302883
Format:
1 online resource (158 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4725-5230-X
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1-4725-1531-5
Series Statement:
Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Uniform Title:
In Aristotelis Physicorum commentaria. 1.3-4.
Content:
"In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics and on Porphyry. Much of his approach is just scholarly, but in places he reveals his Neoplatonist affiliation and attempts to show the basic agreement among his predecessors in spite of their apparent differences. This is in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series - a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics and on Porphyry. Much of his approach is just scholarly, but in places he reveals his Neoplatonist affiliation and attempts to show the basic agreement among his predecessors in spite of their apparent differences. This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.
Note:
"Paperback edition first published 2014"--T. p. verso.
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Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Textual Emendations -- Introduction -- Translation -- 1.3 15 -- 1.4 58 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- English-Greek Glossary -- Greek-English Index -- Subject Index -- Index of Passages
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Also issued in print
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4725-5792-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7156-3921-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472552303
