Der Bericht des Simplicius Über die Quadraturen des Antiphon und des Hippokrates, 1907
By: Simplicius, Cilicius, Rudio, Ferdinand (Ed.),
Title Der Bericht des Simplicius Über die Quadraturen des Antiphon und des Hippokrates
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1907
Publication Place Charleston
Publisher Nabu Press
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s) Rudio, Ferdinand
Translator(s) Rudio, Ferdinand() .
Der Bericlit des Simplicius über die Quadraturen des Antiphon und des Hippokrates ist eine der wichtigsten Quellen für die Geschichte der griechischen Geometrie vor Euklid. Enthält doch dieser Bericht, neben vielen anderen historisch höchst wertvollen Mitteilungen, einen umfangreichen wörtlichen Auszug aus der leider verloren gegangenen Geschichte der Geometrie des Eudemus! Das uns auf diese Weise erhaltene Referat des Eudemus bezieht sich auf die scharfsinnigen Untersuchungen, die Hippokrates von Chios etwa ums Jahr 440 v. Chr. in einer ebenfalls verloren gegangenen Abhandlung über die Quadraturen der sogenannten Möndchen angestellt hat, Untersuchungen, die vielleicht als Vorbereitungen zu der von alters her umworbenen Quadratur des Kreises gedient haben. Die Abhandlung des Hippokrates ist um so wertvoller, als sie die älteste auf griechischem Boden entstandene mathematische Arbeit darstellt, die uns in gesicherter und zugleich ausführlicher und zusammenhängender Überlieferung vorliegt. [introduction]

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Simplicii in Aristotelis Categorias Commentarium, 1907
By: Kalbfleisch, Karl (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis Categorias Commentarium
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1907
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 8
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Kalbfleisch, Karl
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in Aristotelis De caelo Commentaria, 1894
By: Heiberg, Johan Ludvig (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis De caelo Commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1894
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 7
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Heiberg, Johan Ludvig
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores commentaria, 1882
By: Diels, Hermann (Ed.), Simplicius, Diels, Hermann
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores commentaria
Type Monograph
Language Greek
Date 1882
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca
Volume 9
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius , Diels, Hermann
Editor(s) Diels, Hermann
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in libros Aristotelis De anima Commentaria, 1882
By: Hayduck, Michael (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in libros Aristotelis De anima Commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1882
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 11
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Hayduck, Michael
Translator(s)

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Simplikios' Commentar zu Epiktetos Handbuch, 1867
By: Simplicius, Enk, K. (Ed.)
Title Simplikios' Commentar zu Epiktetos Handbuch
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1867
Publication Place Wien
Publisher Beck
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Enk, K.
Translator(s) Enk, K.(Enk, K.) ,

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Simplicii commentarius in IV libros Aristotelis de caelo, 1865
By: Karsten, Simon (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii commentarius in IV libros Aristotelis de caelo
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1865
Publication Place Trajecti ad Rhenum
Publisher Apud Kemink et Filium
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Karsten, Simon
Translator(s)

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Simplicii Commentarius in Epicteti Encheiridion, accedit Enchiridii paraphrasis christiana et Nili Encheiridion, tomus posterior, 1800
By: Schweighäuser, Johann (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii Commentarius in Epicteti Encheiridion, accedit Enchiridii paraphrasis christiana et Nili Encheiridion, tomus posterior
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1800
Publication Place Lipsiae
Publisher Weidmann
Series Epicteteae Philosophiae Monumenta
Volume 4-5
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Schweighäuser, Johann
Translator(s)

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Simplicii Commentarius in Epicteti Enchiridion, 1778
By: Simplicius, Schulthess, Johann Georg,
Title Simplicii Commentarius in Epicteti Enchiridion
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1778
Publication Place Zürich
Publisher Orell, Füssli und Co
Series Bibliothek der griechischen Philosophen
Volume 1
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius , Schulthess, Johann Georg
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Schulthess, Johann Georg() .

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Epictetus his Morals, with Simplicius his Comment. Made English from the Greek by George Stanhope, with the life of Epictetus, from Monfieur Boileau. , 1694
By: Stanhope, George (Ed.), Simplicius, Epictetus,
Title Epictetus his Morals, with Simplicius his Comment. Made English from the Greek by George Stanhope, with the life of Epictetus, from Monfieur Boileau.
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1694
Publication Place London
Edition No. 5
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius , Epictetus
Editor(s) Stanhope, George
Translator(s) Stanhope, George(Stanhope, George) .
I do not intend to give a tedious account of the work itself, but shall only say that it has been my endeavor to express the author’s sense with all the ease and freedom I could, so as to avoid both the slavery of a literal and the licentiousness of a loose and luxuriant interpretation. My design at present is only to make some necessary reflections upon those parts of the Stoic philosophy which are apt to prejudice men against it, and tempt some, from these extravagant systems of moral perfection, to think (at least to plead in defense of their own excesses) that the general rules prescribed for reforming our manners are things too finely thought, sublime, airy, and impracticable speculations. [Preface]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.2–3’, 2011
By: Mueller, Ian (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.2–3’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2011
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
One of the arguments in Aristotle's On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish. This volume contains the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on the first part of this this important work. The commentary is notable and unusual because Simplicius includes in his discussion lengthy representations of the Christian John Philoponus' criticisms of Aristotle along with his own, frequently sarcastic, responses.

This is the first complete translation into a modern language of Simplicius' commentary, and is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.3–4’, 2011
By: Mueller, Ian (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.3–4’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2011
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
This is the first English translation of Simplicius' responses to Philoponus' Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. The commentary is published in two volumes: Ian Mueller's previous book in the series, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3, and this book on 1.3-4.

Philoponus, the Christian, had argued that Aristotle's arguments do not succeed. For all they show to the contrary, Christianity may be right that the heavens were brought into existence by the only divine being and one moment in time, and will cease to exist at some future moment. Simplicius upholds the pagan view that the heavens are eternal and divine, and argues that their eternity is shown by their astronomical movements coupled with certain principles of Aristotle.

The English translation in this volume is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive commentary notes and a bibliography. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.5-9’, 2014
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.5-9’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2014
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) ,
A discourse between Simplicius and Aristotle on whether there is more than one physical world and whether the universe exists beyond the outermost stars. Here, Simplicius tells of the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.
Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century AD (here translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 2.10–14’, 2005
By: Mueller, Ian (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 2.10–14’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2005
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun, moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rotation. But this creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light, and, in the case of the sun, heat. The topics covered in this part of Simplicius' commentary are: the speeds and distances of the stars; that the stars are spherical; why the sun and moon have fewer motions than the other five planets; why the sphere of the fixed stars contains so many stars whereas the other heavenly spheres contain no more than one (Simplicius has a long excursus on planetary theory in his commentary on this chapter); discussion of people's views on the position, motion or rest, shape, and size of the earth; that the earth is a relatively small sphere at rest in the centre of the cosmos. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 2.1–9’, 2004
By: Mueller, Ian (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 2.1–9’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2004
Publication Place London
Publisher Durckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rotation. But this creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light, and, in the case of the sun, heat. The value of Simplicius' commentary on On the Heavens 2,1-9 lies both in its preservation of the lost comments of Alexander and in Simplicius' controversy with him. The two of them discuss not only the problem mentioned, but also whether soul and nature move the spheres as two distinct forces or as one. Alexander appears to have simplified Aristotle's system of 55 spheres down to seven, and some hints may be gleaned as to whether, simplifying further, he thinks there are seven ultimate movers, or only one.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 3.1-7’, 2009
By: Mueller, Ian (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 3.1-7’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2009
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
The subject of Aristotle's On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens. Book 3, in chapters 1 to 7, frequently criticizes the Presocratic philosophers. Because of this, Simplicius' commentary is one of our main sources of quotations of the Presocratics. Ian Mueller's translation of this commentary gains added importance by enabling us to see the context which guided Simplicius' selection of Presocratic texts to quote. Simplicius also criticizes the lost commentary of the leading Aristotelian commentator, Alexander, and thereby gives us important information about that work. The English translation in this volume is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive commentary notes and a bibliography. [official abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 3.7-4.6’, 2009
By: Simplicius , Mueller, Ian (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 3.7-4.6’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2009
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
Commenting on the end of Aristotle's On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's theory of elemental chemistry in the Timaeus. Plato makes the characteristics of the four elements depend on the shapes of component corpuscles and ultimately on the arrangement of the triangles which compose them. Simplicius preserves and criticizes the contributions made to the debate in lost works by two other major commentators, Alexander the Aristotelian, and Proclus the Platonist.

In Book 4, Simplicius identifies fifteen objections by Aristotle to Plato's views on weight in the four elements. He finishes Book 4 by elaborating Aristotle's criticisms of Democritus' theory of weight in the atoms, including Democritus' suggestions about the influence of atomic shape on certain atomic motions.

This volume includes an English translation of Simplicius' commentary, a detailed introduction, extensive commentary notes and a bibliography.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 1.1-2.4’, 2013
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 1.1-2.4’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2013
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) ,
The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider readership to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian's Paraphrase of Theophrastus on Sense Perception, which covers the same subject, will also be translated for comparison.
Whatever its authorship, the commentary is a major source for late Neoplatonist theories of thought and sense perception and provides considerable insight into this important area of Aristotle's thought. In this first volume, the Neoplatonist commentator covers the first half of Aristotle's On the Soul, comprising Aristotle's survey of his predecessors and his own rival account of the nature of the soul.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 1.5–9’, 2012
By: Simplicius , Baltussen, Han (Ed.), Atkinson, Michael (Ed.), Share, Michael (Ed.), Mueller, Ian (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 1.5–9’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2012
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Baltussen, Han , Atkinson, Michael , Share, Michael , Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Baltussen, Han(Baltussen, Han) , Atkinson, M.(Atkinson, Michael ) , Share, Michael (Share, Michael ) , Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by 'principle' and 'element' in Physics. Simplicius' own conception of matter is of a quantity that is utterly diffuse because of its extreme distance from its source, the Neoplatonic One, and he tries to find this conception both in Plato's account of space and in a stray remark of Aristotle's. Finally, Simplicius rejects the Manichaean view that matter is evil and answers a Christian objection that to make matter imperishable is to put it on a level with God. This is the first translation of Simplicius' important work into English. [official abstact]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 3’, 2013
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 3’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2013
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) ,
Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify change in relations from being genuine change. Aristotle's successor Theophrastus, we are told, and Simplicius himself, prefer to admit relational change. Chapter 3 introduces a general causal principle that the activity of the agent causing change is in the patient undergoing change, and that the causing and undergoing are to be counted as only one activity, however different in definition. Simplicius points out that this paves the way for Aristotle's God who moves the heavens, while admitting no motion in himself. It is also the basis of Aristotle's doctrine, central to Neoplatonism, that intellect is one with the objects it contemplates.In defending Aristotle's claim that the universe is spatially finite, Simplicius has to meet Archytas' question, "What happens at the edge?". He replies that, given Aristotle's definition of place, there is nothing, rather than an empty place, beyond the furthest stars, and one cannot stretch one's hand into nothing, nor be prevented by nothing. But why is Aristotle's beginningless universe not temporally infinite? Simplicius answers that the past years no longer exist, so one never has an infinite collection.

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