Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Cover......Page 1
Front......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
1. The ancient commentators on Aristotle......Page 10
2. Review of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca......Page 39
3. The earliest Aristotelian commentators......Page 64
4. The school of Alexander?......Page 91
5. Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?......Page 120
6. The harmony of Plotinus and Aristotle according to Porphyry......Page 131
7. Porphyry's legacy to logic: a reconstruction......Page 147
8. How did Syrianus regard Aristotle?......Page 178
9. Infinite power impressed: the transformation of Aristotle's physics and theology......Page 184
10. The metaphysics of Ammonius son of Hermeias......Page 203
11. The development of Philoponus' thought and its chronology......Page 236
12. The life and work of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic sources......Page 277
13. Neoplatonic elements in the de Anima commentaries......Page 306
14. The Alexandrian commentators and the introductions to their commentaries......Page 326
15. Boethius'commentaries on Aristotle......Page 351
16. Boethius as an Aristotelian commentator......Page 374
17. An unpublished funeral oration on Anna Comnena......Page 393
18. The Greek commentators on Aristotle's Ethics......Page 408
19. Philoponus,'Alexander'and the origins of medieval logic......Page 445
20. Aristotle's doctrine of abstraction in the commentators......Page 461
Note on the frontispiece: 'Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias'by Ulocrino......Page 480
General......Page 483
Adrastus......Page 485
Alexander of Aphrodisias......Page 486
Ammonius son of Hermeias......Page 488
Asclepius......Page 489
Boethius......Page 490
David......Page 492
Elias......Page 493
Iamblichus......Page 494
Olympiodorus......Page 495
Philoponus......Page 496
Porphyry......Page 498
Simplicius......Page 499
Stephanus......Page 501
Themistius......Page 502
Isagoge and Categories......Page 504
de Interpretatione......Page 505
Analytics......Page 506
Metaphysics......Page 507
Physics and Mathematics......Page 508
General......Page 511
Intellect......Page 512
The early commentators......Page 513
School of Alexandria......Page 515
The Arab tradition......Page 516
Middle and Late Byzantium......Page 518
Translation into Latin......Page 519
The Renaissance......Page 521
Manuscripts......Page 522
Index Locorum......Page 524
General Index......Page 534