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

• Autore: Simplicius, of Cilicia
• Pubblicazione: London, : Bristol Classical Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.11
• Soggetto topico: Science, Ancient; Physics - Early works to 1800; Motion - Early works to 1800; Knowledge, Theory of - Early works to 1800
• Persona (resp. second.): HubyPamela M.; TaylorC. C. W <1936-> (Christopher Charles Whiston)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4
• ISBN: 1-4725-5230-X; 1-4725-1531-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465447203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ancient commentators on Aristotle.