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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465447203321

Autore

Simplicius, of Cilicia

Titolo

On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 / Simplicius ; translated by Pamela Huby and C.C.W. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bristol Classical Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4725-5230-X

1-4725-1531-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Collana

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Disciplina

530.11

Soggetti

Science, Ancient

Physics - Early works to 1800

Motion - Early works to 1800

Knowledge, Theory of - Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Paperback edition first published 2014"--T. p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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

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.