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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simplicius, of Cilicia, author.

Contributor:

Huby, Pamela M., editor.

Taylor, C. C. W. (Christopher Charles Whiston), 1936- editor.

Series:

Ancient commentators on Aristotle.

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Standardized Title:

In Aristotelis Physicorum commentaria. 1.3-4. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Physics.

Aristotle.

Science, Ancient.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Motion--Early works to 1800.

Motion.

Knowledge, Theory of--Early works to 1800.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bristol Classical Press 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

ISBN:

9781472552303

147255230X

9781472515315

1472515315

OCLC:

875819428