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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 6’, 1989
By: Konstan, David (Ed.), Simplicius

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 6’
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1989
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Simplicius
Editor(s)	Konstan, David
Translator(s)	Konstan, David(Konstan, David) ,

Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics whose works have survived to the present, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1300 pages in the original Greek, preserve not only a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle but also fragments of lost works by other thinkers, including both the Presocratic philosophers and such Aristotalians as Eudemus, Theophrastus and Alexander. The Physics contains some of Aristotle's best and most enduring work, and Simplicius' commentaries are essential to an understanding of it. This volume makes the commentary on Book Six accessible at last to all scholars, whether or not they know classical Greek. It will be indispensible for students of classical philosophy, and especially of Aristotle, as well as for those interested in philosophical thought of late antiquity. It will also be welcomed by students of the history of ideas and philosophers interested in problem mathematics and motion. [offical abstract]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ya32IcBAnQJ2o2t

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Plutarco di Atene. L’Uno, l’Anima, le Forme, 1989
By: Taormina, Daniela

Title	Plutarco di Atene. L’Uno, l’Anima, le Forme
Type	Monograph
Language	Italian
Date	1989
Publication Place	Rom
Publisher	Università di Catania, Catania und L’Erma di Bretschneider
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Taormina, Daniela
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

Questo volume ottavo della Collana "Symbolon" è frutto di lunga e intelligente fatica di ricerca e di studio da parte di una delle mie più valenti allieve e collaboratrici, la dott. D. P. Taormina, che ha il merito di avere fornito, con i risultati di questo suo lavoro, la prima monografia completa, corredata dalla raccolta delle fonti mai prima d'ora compiuta (testo, traduzione e ampio commento), su uno dei più decisivi, ancorché poco studiati, anelli di collegamento tra il primo e l'ultimo neoplatonismo, ovverossia tra l'eredità immediata di Plotino e l'esplosione dell'attività speculativa più matura e sistematica della filosofia neoplatonica. Alla fine del IV secolo d. C., quando il pensiero cristiano era ormai divenuto adulto ad opera di pensatori quali Origene, Mario Vittorino e Agostino (tutti debitori del platonismo e del neoplatonismo), si ebbe ad Atene, nella vecchia e gloriosa culla della civiltà antica, una rinascita della tradizione platonica ad opera di un pensatore destinato a divenire maestro degli ultimi maestri di platonismo dell'antichità. Plutarco di Atene, finora considerato piu un termine di continuità storica che un caposaldo dello sviluppo del pensiero neoplatonico, esce dalla ricerca della Taormina in tutta la sua dimensione teoretica di esegeta e filosofo che ha contribuito a preparare (assieme al suo più famoso primo discepolo, Siriano) le fondamenta piu solide dell'ultima sistemazione del platonismo (Proclo e Damscio)... [offical abstract]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/aXQUa3pSMwL9r98

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John Philoponus' criticism of Aristotle's theory of aether, 1988
By: Wildberg, Christian

Title	John Philoponus' criticism of Aristotle's theory of aether
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1988
Publication Place	Berlin – New York
Publisher	de Gruyter
Series	Peripatoi
Volume	16
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Wildberg, Christian
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3ofgBWaQhtspTy5

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Matter, Space, and Motion. Theories in Antiquity and Their Sequel, 1988
By: Sorabji, Richard

Title	Matter, Space, and Motion. Theories in Antiquity and Their Sequel
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1988
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

The nature of matter was as intriguing a question for ancient philosophers as it is for contemporary physicists, and Matter, Space, and Motion presents a fresh and illuminating account of the rich legacy of the physical theories of the Greeks from the fifth century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D. [a.a]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kRfqxdppdnUkTN3

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Philoponus: Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World, 1987
By: Philoponos, Johannes,

Title	Philoponus: Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1987
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Philoponos, Johannes
Editor(s)
Translator(s)	Wildberg, Christian(Wildberg, Christian) .

Philoponus' treatise Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World, an attack on Aristotle's astronomy and theology is concerned mainly with the eternity and divinity of the fifth element, or 'quintessence', of which Aristotle took the stars to be composed. Pagans and Christians were divided on whether the world had a beginning, and on whether a belief that the heavens were divine was a mark of religion. Philoponus claimed on behalf of Christianity that the universe was not eternal. His most spectacular arguments, where wrung paradox out of the pagan belief in an infinite past, have been wrongly credited by historians of science to a period 700 years later. The treatise was to influence Islamic, Jewish, Byzantine and Latin thought, though the fifth element was defended against Philoponus even beyond the time of Copernicus. The influence of the treatise was not easy to trace before the fragments were assembled. Dr. Wildberg has brought them together for the first time and provided a summary which makes coherent sense of the whole. He has also studied a Syriac fragment, which reveals that the treatise originally contained an explicitly theological section on the Christian expectation of a new heaven and a new earth. [Author’s abstract]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/BKLiRIHJadbHjQ4

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The Physical World of Late Antiquity, 1987
By: Sambursky, Samuel

Title	The Physical World of Late Antiquity
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1987
Publication Place	Princeton
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Sambursky, Samuel
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

Sambursky describes the development of scientific conceptions and theories in the centuries following Aristotle until the close of antiquity in the sixth century A. D. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. [a.a.]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/5faaQKwuOtOBZ9a

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Theophrastus of Eresus. On his Life and Work, 1985
By: Fortenbaugh, William W. (Ed.), Huby, Pamela M. (Ed.), Long, Anthony A. (Ed.)

Title	Theophrastus of Eresus. On his Life and Work
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1985
Publication Place	New Brunswick
Publisher	Transaction Books
Series	Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities
Volume	2
Categories	no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s)	Fortenbaugh, William W. , Huby, Pamela M. , Long, Anthony A.
Translator(s)

This series in the field of classics grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal is to collect, edit, and comment on the fragments of Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, Aristotle's pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Contributions are by international experts, and each volume will have a particular focus. Volume I is devoted to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to Caesar Augustus and author of an extensive survey of Stoic and Peripatetic ethics. Volumes II and III will concentrate on Theophrastus and disseminate knowledge gained through work on the project. Volume IV will focus on Cicero and his knowledge of Hellenistic philosophy.

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/LrsshmpZ2bN6Q9v

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Porfirio e la fisica aristotelica, 1985
By: Romano, Francesco

Title	Porfirio e la fisica aristotelica
Type	Monograph
Language	Italian
Date	1985
Publication Place	Catania
Publisher	Universita di Catania
Series	Symbolon
Volume	3
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Romano, Francesco
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

Tra i commentari ad Aristotele quelli di Porfirio occupano senza dubbio un posto preminente. Francesco Romano presenta uno studio sulla figura e sull’opera di Porfirio di cui analizza l’attività commentaria e i termini dell’interesse specifico per Aristotele attraverso la ricostruzione dei frammenti e delle testimonianze relativi al Commentario alla Fisica. Per fare questo l’autore presenta la traduzione dell’opera chiarendo anche i rapporti di Porfirio con Eudemo, Nicola, Alessandro, Temistio e Simplicio. [a.a.]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/aNuJShPufwgm0a1

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Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen. Von Andronikos bis Alexander von Aphrodisias. Band 2: Der Aristotelismus im I. und II. Jh. n.Chr., 1984
By: Moraux, Paul

Title	Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen. Von Andronikos bis Alexander von Aphrodisias. Band 2: Der Aristotelismus im I. und II. Jh. n.Chr.
Type	Monograph
Language	German
Date	1984
Publication Place	Berlin – New York
Publisher	de Gruyter
Series	Peripatoi
Volume	6
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Moraux, Paul
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicius as a Source for and an Interpreter of Parmenides, 1983
By: Perry, Bruce M.

Title	Simplicius as a Source for and an Interpreter of Parmenides
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1983
Publication Place	University of Washington
Series	Ph.D. Dissertation
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Perry, Bruce M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

Simplicius, a Neoplatonist of the sixth century, wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle's works, with his commentary on Physics I being of particular significance for the history of ancient philosophy. In this commentary, Simplicius aimed to demonstrate the harmony of doctrines presented by the Presocratic philosophers, both in the physical and metaphysical realms. However, his work has been largely overlooked, partly due to the dominance of the Vorsokratiker collection as the standard source for Presocratic material. This neglect is also attributed to Simplicius being a late Neoplatonist and a commentator, which led to simplistic assessments of his interpretations. Despite being dismissed as derivative and his interpretations considered anachronistic, Simplicius' commentaries and quotations of the Presocratic authors are valuable sources for understanding their philosophies. His work cannot be separated from his interpretations, and their examination can provide important insights into the context and focus of the Presocratics' ideas. While Simplicius employs Neoplatonic concepts in his interpretations, dismissing them solely on this basis overlooks the depth and philological rigor present in his work. Rejecting his interpretations on these grounds may hinder a comprehensive understanding of the Presocratic philosophers and their contributions to ancient philosophy. [introduction]

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Simplicius, Corollaries on place and time, 2013
By: Simplicius, Cilicius, Urmson, L., James O. (Ed.), Siorvanes, Lucas (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius, Corollaries on place and time
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)	Urmson, L., James O. , Siorvanes, Lucas
Translator(s)	Urmson, L., James O.(Urmson, James O.) , Siorvanes, Lucas(Siorvanes, Lucas) ,

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps?
Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12', 1997
By: Simplicius,

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12'
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1997
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)	Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos )

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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 1.3–4, 2011
By: Simplicius Cilicius, Huby, Pamela M. (Ed.), Taylor, Christopher C. W. (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 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 Cilicius
Editor(s)	Huby, Pamela M. , Taylor, Christopher C. W.
Translator(s)	Huby, Pamela M.(Huby, Pamela M.) , Taylor, Christopher C. W.(Taylor, Christopher C. W.) ,

 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. [author's abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2, 1997
By: Simplicius

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1997
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)	Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) ,

Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It introduces the seminal idea of four causes, or four modes of explanation. It defines chance, but rejects a theory of chance and natural selection in favour of purpose in nature.
Simplicius, writing in the sixth century Ad, adds his own considerable contribution to this work. Seeing Aristotle's God as a Creator, he discusses how nature relates to soul, adds Stoic and Neoplatonist causes to Aristotle's list of four, and questions the likeness of cause to effect. He discusses missing a great evil or a great good by a hairsbreadth and considers whether animals act from reason or natural instinct. He also preserves a Posidonian discussion of mathematical astronomy.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7, 1994
By: Simplicius, Cilicius,

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1994
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)	Hagen, Charles(Hagen, Charles)

There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the text is not new to modern scholarship: for example, in the fourth century BC Eudemus, the Peripatetic philosopher associate of Aristotle, left it out of his treatment of the Physics. Now, for the first time, Charles Hagen's lucid translation gives the English reader access to Simplicius' commentary on Book 7, an indispensable tool for the understanding of the text. Its particular interest lies in its explanation of how the chapters of Book 7 fit together and its reference to a more extensive second version of Aristotle's text than the one which survives today. [author's abstract]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iCxryN3Wv5Q0lFW

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’, 2003
By: Chase, Michael (Ed.), Simplicius

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	2003
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Duckworth
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Simplicius
Editor(s)	Chase, Michael
Translator(s)	Chase, Michael(Chase, Michael ) ,

Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 5-6’, 2013
By: Haas, Frans A. J. de (Ed.), Fleet, Barrie (Ed.), Simplicius

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 5-6’
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	2013
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Simplicius
Editor(s)	Haas, Frans A. J. de , Fleet, Barrie
Translator(s)	Haas, Frans A. J. de(de Haas, Frans A. J.) , Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) ,

Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus' critical discussion. Simplicius' commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of Aristotle's Categories. One subject discussed by Simplicius in these chapters is where the differentia of a species (eg the rationality of humans) fits into the scheme of categories. Another is why Aristotle elevates the category of Quantity to second place, above the category of Quality. Further, de Haas shows how Simplicius distinguishes different kinds of universal order to solve some of the problems.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.1-4’, 2014
By: Simplicius, Cilicius

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.1-4’
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	2014
Publication Place	London
Publisher	Bristol Classical Press
Series	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)	Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) ,

In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the heavens were composed of all four elements but with the purest kind of fire, namely light, predominating. That Plato would not mind this being called a fifth element is shown by his associating with the heavens the fifth of the five convex regular solids recognised by geometry.
Simplicius follows Aristotle's view that one of the lower elements, fire, also rotates, as shown by the behaviour of comets. But such motion, though natural for the fifth elements, is super-natural for fire. Simplicius reveals that the Aristotelian Alexander of Aphrodisias recognised the need to supplement Aristotle and account for the annual approach and retreat of planets by means of Ptolemy's epicycles or eccentrics.
Aristotle's philosopher-god is turned by Simplicius, following his teacher Ammonius, into a creator-god, like Plato's. But the creation is beginningless, as shown by the argument that, if you try to imagine a time when it began, you cannot answer the question, 'Why not sooner?' In explaining the creation, Simplicius follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle's four 'causes' to six. The final result gives us a cosmology very considerably removed from Aristotle's.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.10-12’, 2006
By: Simplicius, Cilicius

Title	Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.10-12’
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	2006
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.) ,

Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any, of the universe. A parallel battle had already been conducted by Philoponus and Proclus, arguing that Plato's "Timaeus" gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius denies this.
In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning.

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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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