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Roman Aristotle, 1997
By: Barnes, Jonathan (Ed.), Griffin, Miriam (Ed.), Barnes, Jonathan
Title Roman Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome
Pages 1-69
Categories no categories
Author(s) Barnes, Jonathan
Editor(s) Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Miriam
Translator(s)
When Theophrastus died, his library, which included the library of Aristotle, was carried off to the Troad. His successors found nothing much to read; the Lyceum sank into a decline; and Peripatetic ideas had little influence on the course of Hellenistic philosophy. It was only with the rediscovery of the library that Aristotelianism revived—and it revived in Italy. For the library went from the Troad to Athens—whence, as part of Sulla’s war booty, to Rome. There, Andronicus of Rhodes produced the ‘Roman edition’ of the corpus Aristotelicum. It was the first complete and systematic version of Aristotle’s works, the first publication in their full form of the technical treatises, the first genuinely critical edition of the text. Andronicus’ Roman edition caused a sensation. It revitalized the languishing Peripatetics. It set off an explosion of Aristotelian studies. It laid the foundation for all subsequent editions of Aristotle’s works, including our modern texts. When we read Aristotle, we should pour a libation to Andronicus—and to Sulla. That story is the main subject of the following pages. It is familiar enough; my argument will be laborious; I have nothing new to say about it; and my general conclusions are dispiritingly skeptical. But recent scholarship on the topic has taken to the bottle of fantasy and stumbled drunkenly from one dogmatism to the next. Another look at the pertinent texts may be forgiven—and in any event, the story is a peach. My concern (let me stress at the start) is the way in which Aristotle’s texts reached Rome—and us. I am not concerned with the general influence of Peripatetic ideas on the Roman intelligentsia—that is a vast and complex question; nor am I concerned with the specific influence of Aristotle’s ideas on the Roman intelligentsia—that is a different question, less vast and more complex. Indeed, I deal neither with the history of ideas nor with the history of philosophy: my subject is an episode in the history of books and the book trade. [introduction p. 1]

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Roman Aristotle, 1997
By: Barnes, Jonathan (Ed.), Griffin, Miriam (Ed.), Barnes, Jonathan
Title Roman Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome
Pages 1-69
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Barnes, Jonathan
Editor(s) Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Miriam
Translator(s) 
When Theophrastus died, his library, which included the library of Aristotle, was carried off to the Troad. His successors found nothing much to read; the Lyceum sank into a decline; and Peripatetic ideas had little influence on the course of Hellenistic philosophy. It was only with the rediscovery of the library that Aristotelianism revived—and it revived in Italy. For the library went from the Troad to Athens—whence, as part of Sulla’s war booty, to Rome. There, Andronicus of Rhodes produced the ‘Roman edition’ of the corpus Aristotelicum. It was the first complete and systematic version of Aristotle’s works, the first publication in their full form of the technical treatises, the first genuinely critical edition of the text.

Andronicus’ Roman edition caused a sensation. It revitalized the languishing Peripatetics. It set off an explosion of Aristotelian studies. It laid the foundation for all subsequent editions of Aristotle’s works, including our modern texts. When we read Aristotle, we should pour a libation to Andronicus—and to Sulla.

That story is the main subject of the following pages. It is familiar enough; my argument will be laborious; I have nothing new to say about it; and my general conclusions are dispiritingly skeptical. But recent scholarship on the topic has taken to the bottle of fantasy and stumbled drunkenly from one dogmatism to the next. Another look at the pertinent texts may be forgiven—and in any event, the story is a peach.

My concern (let me stress at the start) is the way in which Aristotle’s texts reached Rome—and us. I am not concerned with the general influence of Peripatetic ideas on the Roman intelligentsia—that is a vast and complex question; nor am I concerned with the specific influence of Aristotle’s ideas on the Roman intelligentsia—that is a different question, less vast and more complex. Indeed, I deal neither with the history of ideas nor with the history of philosophy: my subject is an episode in the history of books and the book trade. [introduction p. 1]

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