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Embryological Models in Ancient Philosophy, 2005
By: Henry, Devin
Title Embryological Models in Ancient Philosophy
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Phronesis
Volume 50
Issue 1
Pages 1-42
Categories no categories
Author(s) Henry, Devin
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Historically embryogenesis has been among the most philosophically intriguing phenomena. In this paper I focus on one aspect of biological development that was particularly perplexing to the ancients: self-organisation. For many ancients, the fact that an organism determines the important features of its own develop­ment required a special model for understanding how this was possible. This was especially true for Aristotle, Alexander, and Simplicius, who all looked to con­temporary technology to supply that model. However, they did not all agree on what kind of device should be used. In this paper I explore the way these ancients made use of technology as a model for the developing embryo. I argue that their different choices of device reveal fundamental differences in the way each thinker understood the nature of biological development itself. In the final section of the paper I challenge the traditional view (dating back to Alexander’s interpretation of Aristotle) that the use of automata in GA can simply be read off from their use in the de motu. [Author's abstract]

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Harran, the Sabians and the Late Platonist 'Movers', 2005
By: Lane Fox, Robin, Smith, Andrew (Ed.)
Title Harran, the Sabians and the Late Platonist 'Movers'
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2005
Published in The philosopher and society in late antiquity. Essays in honour of Peter Brown
Pages 231-244
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lane Fox, Robin
Editor(s) Smith, Andrew
Translator(s)
Since 1986, in a series of wide-ranging studies, M. Tardieu has argued that the ‘Seven philosophers who went East when the Athens Academy closed settled down at Harran (Carrhae) in northern Syria. The town was a famous bastion of pagan cult (we can usefully contrast its neighbour, perhaps its rival, the stridently Christian Edessa: Green 1992, 44-94; Segal 1970). Furthermore, he believes, a (neo)Platonic seat of philosophical teaching persisted in Harran into the ninth/tenth centuries ad, being sustained in the wake of the émigrés’ presence. Its participants presented themselves as the ‘Sabians’, the enigmatic group who had been favourably mentioned in the Koran. They then led the renewed prominence of Platonist philosophy in the Abbasid era which is visible to us in the ninth-tenth centuries. This theory of a long Platonist ‘survival’ has not exactly endeared itself to experts in early Islamic philosophy (e.g. Gutas 1994, 4943; Endress 1991, 133-7; Lameer 1997), but it has been enthusiastically received by one or two writers on late antiquity: P. Chuvin (1990), I. Hadot (1996, who was first attracted by support for her studies of Simplicius, his text and Manichaeism) and P. Athanassiadi (1993, 29) who made it the final flourish of a long article on late pagan philosophy: ‘it was thanks to the stepping-stone of Harran and to Damascius’ inspired decisiveness [in settling in Harran] that Neoplatonic theology reached Baghdad by a clearly definable - if not direct — route from Athens’. I wish to restate why it did nothing of the sort. [introduction, p. 231]

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What is Platonism?, 2005
By: Gerson, Lloyd P.
Title What is Platonism?
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Journal of the History of Philosophy
Volume 43
Issue 3
Pages 253-276
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gerson, Lloyd P.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
My main conclusion is that we should understand Platonism historically as consisting in fidelity to the principles of “top-downism.” So understanding it, we havea relatively sharp critical tool for deciding who was and who was not a Platonist despite their silence or protestations to the contrary. Unquestionably, the most important figure in this regard is Aristotle. I would not like to end this historical inquiry, however, without suggesting a philosophical moral. The moral is that there are at least some reasons for claiming that a truly anti-Platonic Aristotelianism is not philosophically in the cards, so to speak. Thus, if one rigorously and honestly seeks to remove the principles of Platonism from a putatively Aristotelian position, what would remain would be incoherent and probably indefensible. Thus, an Aristotelian ontology of the sensible world that excluded the ontological priority of the supersensible is probably unsustainable. And an Aristotelian psychology that did not recognize the priority and irreducibility of intellect to soul would be similarly beyond repair.89 What contemporary exponents of versions of Platonism or Aristotelianism should perhaps conclude from a study of the history is that, rather than standing in opposition to each other, merger, or at least synergy, ought to be the order of the day.[conclusion, p. 276]

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Priscian of Lydia, Commentator on the "de Anima" in the Tradition of Iamblichus, 2005
By: Perkams, Matthias
Title Priscian of Lydia, Commentator on the "de Anima" in the Tradition of Iamblichus
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Mnemosyne, Fourth Series
Volume 58
Issue 4
Pages 510-530
Categories no categories
Author(s) Perkams, Matthias
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
It has been argued that Priscian of Lydia (around 530), to whom the manuscripts ascribe only two short treatises, is the author of an extended com- mentary on the De anima, which is transmitted under the name of Simplicius. Our analysis confirms this: Priscian's Metaphrase of Theophrastus' Physics is the text which the commentator mentions as his own work. Consequently, its author, Priscian, also wrote the De anima commentary. The parallels between both texts show that the commentator sometimes does not quote Iamblichus directly, but borrowed Iamblichean formulations from the Metaphrase. As for the dating of his works, a comparison with Damascius' writings makes it probable that his On principks is a terminus post quem for the De anima commentary and a terminus ante quern for the Metaphrase. It is likely that both works were composed before 529. [Author's abstract]

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L'écriture et les Présocratiques: Analyse de l'interprétation de Eric Havelock, 2005
By: Palù, Chiara
Title L'écriture et les Présocratiques: Analyse de l'interprétation de Eric Havelock
Type Article
Language French
Date 2005
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 23
Issue 2
Pages 75-92
Categories no categories
Author(s) Palù, Chiara
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research, 2005
By: Baltussen, Han
Title The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Studia Humaniora Tartuensia
Volume 6
Issue 6
Pages 1-26
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper I present a synthetic overview of recent and ongoing research in the field of doxography, that is, the study of the nature, transmission and interrelations of sources for ancient Greek philosophy. The latest revisions of the theory of Hermann Diels (Doxographi Graeci 1879) regarding the historiography ought to be known more widely, as they still influence our understanding of the Presocratics and their reception. The scholarly study on the compilations of Greek philosophical views from Hellenistic and later periods has received a major boost by the first of a projected three-volume study by Mansfeld and Runia (1997). Taking their work as a firm basis I also describe my own work in this area and how it can be related to, and fitted into, this trend by outlining how two important sources for the historiography of Greek philosophy, Theo-phrastus (4th–3rd c. BCE) and Simplicius (early 6th c. AD) stand in a special relation to each other and form an important strand in the doxographical tradition. [Author's abstract]

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Échelle de la nature et division des mouvements chez Aristote et les stoïciens, 2005
By: Bénatoui͏̈l, Thomas
Title Échelle de la nature et division des mouvements chez Aristote et les stoïciens
Type Article
Language French
Date 2005
Journal Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale
Volume 4
Pages 537-556
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bénatoui͏̈l, Thomas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The stoic scala naturae was based, among other things, on a division of natural movements, which this paper studies in order to understand the way in which stoicism approached Nature and its empirical diversity. First, I argue against David Hahm's interpretation that movement «through» (dia) oneself is not on a par with the other natural movements: far from being specific to stones or elements, it designates the movement which is specifically produced by the nature of a thing or being. The aristotelian and stoic analysis of self-movement are then shown to share their basic principles but to lead to diverging approaches of Nature: whereas Aristotle looks for the origin and causes of natural movements, the Stoics offer a taxonomy of visible movements. [Author’s abstract]

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Aristotle and Other Platonists, 2005
By: Gerson, Lloyd P.
Title Aristotle and Other Platonists
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2005
Publication Place Ithaca, NY
Publisher Cornell University Press
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gerson, Lloyd P.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. [autor's abstract]

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Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity, 2005
By: O'Meara, Dominic J.
Title Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2005
Publication Place Oxford
Publisher Oxford University Press
Categories no categories
Author(s) O'Meara, Dominic J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity — from Plotinus in the 3rd century to the 6th-century schools in Athens and Alexandria — neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. This book presents a reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved, rather than excluded, political ideas. A reconstruction of the political philosophy of these thinkers is proposed for the first time, including discussion of these Platonists’ conceptions of the function, structure, and contents of political science (including questions concerning political reform, law, justice, penology, religion, and political action), its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state. This book also traces the influence of these ideas on selected Christian and Islamic writers: Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi. [author's abstract]

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The Empedoclean Kosmos. Structure, Process and the Question of Cyclicity, 2005
By: Pierrēs, Apostolos L. (Ed.)
Title The Empedoclean Kosmos. Structure, Process and the Question of Cyclicity
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2005
Publication Place Patras
Publisher Institut for Philosophical Research
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Pierrēs, Apostolos L.
Translator(s)
Pproceedings of the Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Tertium Myconense, July 6th-July 13th, 2003.

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Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook 27–53, 2002
By: Brennan, Tad (Ed.), Brittain, Charles (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook 27–53
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Brennan, Tad , Brittain, Charles
Translator(s) Brennan, Tad(Brennan, Tad) , Brittain, Charles(Brittain, Charles) , 
The Enchiridion or Handbook of the first-century Ad Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius chose it for beginners, rather than Aristotle's Ethics, because it presupposed no knowledge of logic. We thus get a fascinating chance to see how a pagan Neoplatonist transformed Stoic ideas. The text was relevant to Simplicius because he too, like Epictetus, was teaching beginners how to take the first steps towards eradicating emotion, although he is unlike Epictetus in thinking that they should give up public life rather than acquiesce, if public office is denied them. Simplicius starts from a Platonic definition of the person as rational soul, not body, ignoring Epictetus' further whittling down of himself to just his will or policy decisions. He selects certain topics for special attention in chapters 1, 8, 27 and 31. Things are up to us, despite Fate. Our sufferings are not evil, but providential attempts to turn us from the body. Evil is found only in the human soul. But evil is parasitic (Proclus' term) on good. The gods exist, are provident, and cannot be bought off.With nearly all of this the Stoics would agree, but for quite different reasons, and their own distinctions and definitions are to a large extent ignored. This translation of the Handbook is published in two volumes. This is the second volume, covering chapters 27-53; the first covers chapters 1-26. [offical abstact]

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Simplicius, Syrianus and the Harmony of Ancient Philosophers, 2019
By: Golitsis, Pantelis, Strobel, Benedikt (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, Syrianus and the Harmony of Ancient Philosophers
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2019
Published in Die Kunst der philosophischen Exegese bei den spätanitken Platon- und Aristoteles Kommentatoren. Akten der 15. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung vom 4. bis 6. Oktober 2012 in Trier
Pages 69-99
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s) Strobel, Benedikt
Translator(s) 
This study explores the idea of harmonizing philosophical discourse, which aims to reconcile philosophical texts that contain seemingly incompatible ideas. Contrary to the assumption in scholarly literature, this discourse was not widely accepted in the philosophical Schools of Late Antiquity. The author examines the reactions of Syrianus, the Head of the Platonic School at Athens, to Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's philosophy, and how Syrianus accepted parts of Aristotle's philosophy but rejected others. The article also discusses the absence of a philosophical curriculum at the time of Simplicius' Aristotelian Commentaries, which led to his concern about the innate unity of ancient Greek philosophy being broken apart. [introduction]

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Simplicius, in Cat., p. 1,3-3,17 Kalbfleisch: An Important Contribution to the History of the Ancient, 2004
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut
Title Simplicius, in Cat., p. 1,3-3,17 Kalbfleisch: An Important Contribution to the History of the Ancient
Type Article
Language English
Date 2004
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 147
Issue 3/4
Pages 408-420
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)
Translator(s) 
In the first place, the survey  of  the  commentaries  on  the  Categories with  which  Simplicius  provides  us,  as  well  as  the  examination  undertaken  by J. M. Dillon of the fragments of Iamblichus’ commentaries on Plato’s dialogues, show as clearly as possible that the form of the continuous commentary was utilized by the Neoplatonists right from the start, and that it therefore was not introduced by Syrianus. Secondly,  an  attentive  comparison  between  those  Neoplatonic  commentaries on the Categories that have come down to us proves that a  genuine  doctrinal  continuity  existed  from  Porphyry  to  Simplicius. In addition, I consider it likely that an analogous continuity with regard to the tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle also existed in the Neoplatonic commentaries on the Metaphysics, of which only that of Syrianus (partial), and that of Asclepius-Ammonius (partial) have come down to us, whereas those of Porphyry and Iamblichus are lost, but attested, and that Syrianus’ attitude,  which  he  manifests  in  the  introduction  to  his commentary on book My the Metaphysics, is therefore no more original than his use of the form of the continuous commentary. In conclusion, Syrianus was certainly a great philosopher, but, as far as the precise points dealt with in this article are concerned, he was not the innovator he has been made out to be. [conclusion, p. 419-420]

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Simplicius. Commentaire sur la Physique d'Aristote - Livre II, ch. 4-6, 2019
By: Lernould, Alain
Title Simplicius. Commentaire sur la Physique d'Aristote - Livre II, ch. 4-6
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 2019
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lernould, Alain
Editor(s)
Translator(s) 
Les chapitres 4-6 du Livre II de la Physique d'Aristote constituent le premier essai dans notre littérature philosophique occidentale consacré au hasard et à la fortune. On y trouve l'exemple de la pierre qui en tombant d'une hauteur sur le crâne de quelqu'un le tue, repris par Spinoza dans son Éthique. Aristote et Spinoza s'accordent pour dire que la pierre n'est pas tombée pour tuer. Mais le rejet du finalisme et en même temps de toute forme de contingence chez Spinoza est aux antipodes du finalisme dans lequel Aristote peut inscrire le hasard.
Le commentaire de Simplicius apporte sur la doctrine d'Aristote des éclaircissements et des prolongements substantiels, encore peu connus, auxquels la présente traduction, la première en français, donne un accès direct. Simplicius permet en particulier de trancher sur la question de la traduction des termes t??? et a?t?µat?? en Phys. II, 4-6, à savoir, respectivement, « fortune » et « hasard » (plutôt que « hasard » et « spontanéité »).
En bon néoplatonicien, il couronne son commentaire par un hymne à la déesse Fortune. Ce livre vient à la suite de la traduction du commentaire de Simplicius à la Physique, Livre II, chap. 1-3, publiée par A. Lernould aux Presses universitaires du Septentrion en 2019. Il sera suivi d'un troisième volume qui contiendra la traduction du commentaire aux trois derniers chapitres (7-9) du Livre II de la Physique, qui portent sur la finalité naturelle et la nécessité. [author's abstract]

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Simplicius. Commentaire sur les ‹Catégories› d’Aristote, Chapitres 2–4, 2001
By: Simplicius
Title Simplicius. Commentaire sur les ‹Catégories› d’Aristote, Chapitres 2–4
Type Edited Book
Language French
Date 2001
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Les Belles Lettres
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Hoffmann, Philipe(Hoffmann, Philippe ) , 
Ce volume prend la suite des deux fascicules publies dans la serie Philosophia antiqua (Simplicius. Commentaire sur les Categories, fasc. I: Proeme, trad. de Ph. Hoffmann, commentaire par I. Hadot [vol. 50], et fasc. III: Premier chapitre, trad. de Ph. Hoffmann, commentaire par C. Luna, Leiden-Kobenhavn-Koln 1990 [vol. 51]). Il sera suivi d'autres volumes qui, nous l'esperons, permettront de donner une traduction francaise integrale du commentaire de Simplicius sur les Categories. Ce volume, consacre aux chapitres 2 a 4 des Categories, par lesquels se termine le preambule a l'expose des categories proprement dit, a pris une ampleur considerable a cause de la comparaison analytique avec les sept autres commentaires neoplatonciens sur les Categories: Porphyre, Dexippe, Ammonius, Philopon, Olympiodore, Elias, Boece. Cela nous a permis d'etablir les rapports entre ces textes et de decrire la technique exegetique propre a chacun d'entre eux. Ces resultats une fois acquis, il sera possible de reduire considerablement la taille des volumes qui vont suivre.

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Simplicius. On Aristotle Physics 1.1-2 (Ancient commentators on Aristotle), 2022
By: Menn, Stephen Philip
Title Simplicius. On Aristotle Physics 1.1-2 (Ancient commentators on Aristotle)
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2022
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Series Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Menn, Stephen Philip
Editor(s)
Translator(s) 
With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1–2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing.

This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography. [author's abstract]

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Simplicius. Sur le temps. Commentaire sur la Physique d’Aristote et Corollaire sur le temps, 2021
By: Simplicius ,
Title Simplicius. Sur le temps. Commentaire sur la Physique d’Aristote et Corollaire sur le temps
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 2021
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Vrin
Series Bibliothèque des Textes Philosophiques
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Stevens, Annick(Stevens, Annick) 
Comment comprendre la thèse d’Aristote que le temps est un nombre? Est-il une durée ou un ordre de succession, un simple aspect du devenir ou le responsable de sa régularité? Quel est son rapport avec l’espace? Existe-t-il un temps unique pour les divers changements dans l’univers? Des repères comme l’instant, le présent, la simultanéité, ont-ils un sens indépendamment de notre esprit? De toutes ces questions ardemment débattues parmi les commentateurs grecs d’Aristote, Simplicius, le dernier d’entre eux et certainement le plus perspicace, se fait l’écho autant que l’arbitre. Ses propositions, étonnamment modernes, sont autant d’occasions pour nous de repenser ce concept qui défie encore physiciens et philosophes.
Traduit pour la première fois en français, le texte est accompagné d’une présentation détaillée et de notes explicatives qui en facilitent la compréhension.

Traduction, introduction et notes par A. Stevens. [author's abstract]

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Simplicius: Commentary, Harmony, and Authority, 2009
By: Barney, Rachel
Title Simplicius: Commentary, Harmony, and Authority
Type Article
Language English
Date 2009
Journal Antiquorum Philosophia
Volume 3
Pages 101-119
Categories no categories
Author(s) Barney, Rachel
Editor(s)
Translator(s) 
So to understand Neoplatonic harmonization we must look beyond their reconcilia­
tion of Plato and Aristotle, however crazy or compelling we may happen to find it. Two 
further questions also need to be addressed: first, how and why different Neoplatonists 
constructed  their more  comprehensive  projects  o f harmonization  as  they did,  each 
with its distinctive scope and strategies; and second, what if anything we can say about 
the salient features of harmonization as such,  as an interpretive and philosophical prac­
tice with rules and rewards of its own. In this paper, I will try to address these questions, 
albeit in a brief and preliminary way, with regard to die late commentator Simplicius.4 
First, I will outline the norms and methods which govern Simplicius' argument for the essential harmony o f his tradition. Second, I will sketch, in admittedly rather abstract 
terms, some o f the intellectual attractions o f harmonizing projects in philosophy, and 
w ill attempt to locate Simplicius within this broad genre. [pp. 102 f.]

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Simplicius’ Categorial Analysis of 'differentiae', 2024
By: Hauer, Mareike, Brockmann, Christian (Ed.), Deckers, Daniel (Ed.), Valente, Stefano (Ed.)
Title Simplicius’ Categorial Analysis of 'differentiae'
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2024
Published in Aristoteles-Kommentare und ihre Überlieferung. Wichtige Etappen von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit
Pages 269-291
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hauer, Mareike
Editor(s) Brockmann, Christian , Deckers, Daniel , Valente, Stefano
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                                 Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 1, 2003

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                                                                                                                                    Bowen, Alan C.,                                                                                                                                                                                 Simplicius                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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If there is a single text that has proven to be the bedrock for the modern understanding of early Greek astronomy, it is Simplicius’ commentary on book 2 chapter 12 of Aristotle’s treatise, De caelo. Simplicius’ remarks, which are effectively an elaboration of what he supposes Aristotle to mean in Meta. Λ 8, are almost always accepted as gospel in their broad outlines. I have written at length elsewhere that Simplicius’ comments on De caelo 2.12
do not constitute an account of what Aristotle meant in Meta. Λ 8 that we should accept today as properly historical. That scholars today persist in reading Meta. Λ 8 and other early texts as indicating knowledge of the planetary stations and retrogradations is a puzzle. One only wishes, when these scholars have elaborated their interpretations of Meta. Λ 8  and of the other related texts written before the late second century that concern the planetary motions, that they not stop here as if their work as historians were done. Obviously, it will not be enough if they simply adduce relevant testimonia by later ancient writers. Not only are these testimonia few in number and date to a time after the characteristic planetary motions were duly understood, they typically prove on critical examination to be either ambiguous or anachronistic in the same way as Simplicius’ account is. Consequently, any appeal to such testimonia without critical argument in defense of their historical validity is pointless. Indeed, the burden must fall on these scholars to demonstrate that Meta. Λ 8 and the other early texts must be read in this way. For, absent such proof, all one has is the fallacy of imputing to a writer the perceived consequences of what he writes.
Given the exigencies of publication, this annotated translation will come in two parts. The first, presented here, is devoted to Simplicius’ commentary on De caelo 2.10–11. These chapters in the De caelo raise stock issues in astronomy; and it is valuable, I think, for readers interested in Simplicius’ account of planetary theory in 2.12 to see and assess just how he deals with them. Indeed, not only does Simplicius’ commentary on 2.10–11 show him drawing on a tradition of technical writing for novices and philosophers that goes back to Geminus and Cleomedes, it also shows him going astray on fundamental points in elementary mathematics. And this is surely important for our interpretation of his commentary on 2.12.
The annotation itself is, as I have said, intended to assist the reader with information that may be needed to make sense of the text. My main aim is to allow access to Simplicius that is as little encumbered by my interpretative intrusion as is feasible, since my hope in this publication is that the reader will confront Simplicius for himself by himself, so far as this is possible in a translation. 
[introduction]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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Simplicius\u2019 remarks, which are effectively an elaboration of what he supposes Aristotle to mean in Meta. \u039b 8, are almost always accepted as gospel in their broad outlines. I have written at length elsewhere that Simplicius\u2019 comments on De caelo 2.12\r\ndo not constitute an account of what Aristotle meant in Meta. \u039b 8 that we should accept today as properly historical. That scholars today persist in reading Meta. \u039b 8 and other early texts as indicating knowledge of the planetary stations and retrogradations is a puzzle. One only wishes, when these scholars have elaborated their interpretations of Meta. \u039b 8  and of the other related texts written before the late second century that concern the planetary motions, that they not stop here as if their work as historians were done. Obviously, it will not be enough if they simply adduce relevant testimonia by later ancient writers. Not only are these testimonia few in number and date to a time after the characteristic planetary motions were duly understood, they typically prove on critical examination to be either ambiguous or anachronistic in the same way as Simplicius\u2019 account is. Consequently, any appeal to such testimonia without critical argument in defense of their historical validity is pointless. Indeed, the burden must fall on these scholars to demonstrate that Meta. \u039b 8 and the other early texts must be read in this way. For, absent such proof, all one has is the fallacy of imputing to a writer the perceived consequences of what he writes.\r\nGiven the exigencies of publication, this annotated translation will come in two parts. The first, presented here, is devoted to Simplicius\u2019 commentary on De caelo 2.10\u201311. These chapters in the De caelo raise stock issues in astronomy; and it is valuable, I think, for readers interested in Simplicius\u2019 account of planetary theory in 2.12 to see and assess just how he deals with them. Indeed, not only does Simplicius\u2019 commentary on 2.10\u201311 show him drawing on a tradition of technical writing for novices and philosophers that goes back to Geminus and Cleomedes, it also shows him going astray on fundamental points in elementary mathematics. And this is surely important for our interpretation of his commentary on 2.12.\r\nThe annotation itself is, as I have said, intended to assist the reader with information that may be needed to make sense of the text. My main aim is to allow access to Simplicius that is as little encumbered by my interpretative intrusion as is feasible, since my hope in this publication is that the reader will confront Simplicius for himself by himself, so far as this is possible in a translation. \r\n[introduction]","btype":3,"date":"2003","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/Cxa6aZwE2WNkdBB","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":16,"full_name":"Bowen, Alan C. ","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}},{"id":62,"full_name":"Simplicius Cilicius","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":1479,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"SCIAMVS:  Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences","volume":"4","issue":"","pages":"23-58"}},"sort":["Simplicius\u2019 Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 1"]}

                                    

                                

                            

                        

                    

                            

            
    
                
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