| Title | Review of Baltussen, Han: Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Aestimatio |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 210–224 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In Philosophy and Exegesis in Simpliciusf a preparatory study for a history of the ancient philosophical commentary [224nnl0, 13], Han Baltussen addresses the ‘methodology’ of pagan antiquity’s last ma jor Platonist and its greatest philosophical scholar, Simplicius of Cili cia (AD ca 480- ca 540). What ‘methodology’ means can be best appreciated if the book’s general conclusions are first summarized. [introduction p. 210] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/oXKF0eqANW36ItV |
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| Title | Review of Rescigno, A. 2004: Alessandro di Afrodisia: Commentario al De Caelo di Aristotele, Frammenti del Primo Libro |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Bryn Mawr Classical Review |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Pages | 750 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| It is a sure sign that a field in classical studies is maturing when the fragments of its authors come in for close scrutiny. Where the Greek Aristotelian commentators are concerned, the way was pointed, in this as in so many other areas, by the late Paul Moraux, who in his early and epochal study of Alexander of Aphrodisias's psychological works included an appendix of selected fragments of this commentator's lost exegesis of Aristotle's De animaJ Later he reconstructed thefragments of the same philosopher's treatment of the Posterior Analytics.2 More recently, Arabists in particular have worked on fragments of Alexander's commentaries on the Physics and De generatione et corruptione, while Moraux in the posthumously published third volume of his Aristotelismus surveyed the fragments of several of the lost commentaries.3 One of these was the commentary on the De caelo, the first part of which Andrea Rescigno, in the first of two projected volumes, has now treated exhaustively in his edition of the fragments of the commentary on Book 1. [introduction p. 1] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4vzysjSHY0mmOvC |
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| Title | Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1980 |
| Journal | Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-170 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| I have tried, then, to establish the significance of some ideas in Philoponus' commentaries that, in different ways, reveal this commentator's individuality. Individuality is not, of course, the same as originality, and indeed both my examples have shown how dependent Philoponus was on the many philosophical sources that converge in his commentaries. But this very complexity, at times reaching an eclectic inconsistency, is what makes the Aristotelian exegetical tradition in antiquity worth continued study. At their best, these commentaries involve the interaction between, on the one hand, an inventive commentator with prejudices of his own and, on the other hand, a mass of inherited material. The result may not always illuminate Aristotle, but it will invariably shed light on the continuity of the Greek philosophical tradition in late antiquity. [conclusion p. 170] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/6cdjUb25vOM63SC |
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| Title | Review of Baltussen, Han: Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Aestimatio |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 210–224 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
In Philosophy and Exegesis in Simpliciusf a preparatory study for a history of the ancient philosophical commentary [224nnl0, 13], Han Baltussen addresses the ‘methodology’ of pagan antiquity’s last ma jor Platonist and its greatest philosophical scholar, Simplicius of Cili cia (AD ca 480- ca 540). What ‘methodology’ means can be best appreciated if the book’s general conclusions are first summarized. [introduction p. 210] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/oXKF0eqANW36ItV |
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| Title | Review of Rescigno, A. 2004: Alessandro di Afrodisia: Commentario al De Caelo di Aristotele, Frammenti del Primo Libro |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Bryn Mawr Classical Review |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Pages | 750 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
It is a sure sign that a field in classical studies is maturing when the fragments of its authors come in for close scrutiny. Where the Greek Aristotelian commentators are concerned, the way was pointed, in this as in so many other areas, by the late Paul Moraux, who in his early and epochal study of Alexander of Aphrodisias's psychological works included an appendix of selected fragments of this commentator's lost exegesis of Aristotle's De animaJ Later he reconstructed thefragments of the same philosopher's treatment of the Posterior Analytics.2 More recently, Arabists in particular have worked on fragments of Alexander's commentaries on the Physics and De generatione et corruptione, while Moraux in the posthumously published third volume of his Aristotelismus surveyed the fragments of several of the lost commentaries.3 One of these was the commentary on the De caelo, the first part of which Andrea Rescigno, in the first of two projected volumes, has now treated exhaustively in his edition of the fragments of the commentary on Book 1. [introduction p. 1] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4vzysjSHY0mmOvC |
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| Title | Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1980 |
| Journal | Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-170 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
I have tried, then, to establish the significance of some ideas in Philoponus' commentaries that, in different ways, reveal this commentator's individuality. Individuality is not, of course, the same as originality, and indeed both my examples have shown how dependent Philoponus was on the many philosophical sources that converge in his commentaries. But this very complexity, at times reaching an eclectic inconsistency, is what makes the Aristotelian exegetical tradition in antiquity worth continued study. At their best, these commentaries involve the interaction between, on the one hand, an inventive commentator with prejudices of his own and, on the other hand, a mass of inherited material. The result may not always illuminate Aristotle, but it will invariably shed light on the continuity of the Greek philosophical tradition in late antiquity. [conclusion p. 170] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/6cdjUb25vOM63SC |
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