Author 229
Type of Media
Iamblichus’ Νοερὰ Θεωρία of Aristotle’s Categories, 1997
By: Dillon, John
Title Iamblichus’ Νοερὰ Θεωρία of Aristotle’s Categories
Type Article
Language English
Date 1997
Journal Syllecta Classica
Volume 8
Pages 65-77
Categories no categories
Author(s) Dillon, John
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This text discusses Iamblichus' commentary on Porphyry's large commentary on Aristotle's Categories. Porphyry is credited with the setting out and responses to all the aporiai that were concocted by critics of the Categories in the Middle Platonic period, as well as with references to Stoic doctrines in the commentary. Iamblichus added certain criticisms, modifications of Porphyry, relevant passages of Archytas, and some "higher criticism" or intellectual interpretation of nearly all sections of the work. Iamblichus' contribution was to apply his techniques of allegorical exegesis to Aristotle's Categories, where he was able to apply much the same method as he did with Plato's dialogues. Iamblichus' method of commentary is discussed in detail, including his definition of the skopos, or essential subject matter, of the treatise, which concerned all three possible subject matters for the Categories: words, things, and concepts. [introduction/conclusion]

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Empedocles' Fragment 20 DK: Some Suggestions, 1996
By: van der Ben, Nicolaas
Title Empedocles' Fragment 20 DK: Some Suggestions
Type Article
Language English
Date 1996
Journal Mnemosyne, Fourth Series
Volume 49
Issue 3
Pages 298-320
Categories no categories
Author(s) van der Ben, Nicolaas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Aristotle's Categories in the Greek and Latin medieval exegetical tradition. The case of the argument for the non-simultaneity of relatives, 1996
By: Demetracopoulos, John A.
Title Aristotle's Categories in the Greek and Latin medieval exegetical tradition. The case of the argument for the non-simultaneity of relatives
Type Article
Language English
Date 1996
Journal Cima (Cahiers de l'institut du Moyen Âge grec et latin, Université de Copenhague)
Volume 66
Pages 117-134
Categories no categories
Author(s) Demetracopoulos, John A.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
To conclude: even if we are eager to say that in the case of Anselm’s use of the Aristotelian passage 7b38-39 we notice a medieval misconcep­ tion of the text of the great ancient philosopher, first we should not hasten to infer from this that the medievals couldn’t understand Aristotle or generally ancient writers; and second, we should not be at all sur­prised. Commentators and users of Aristotle’s works have often been exceptional men, but not super-human. Complaining about the texts’ lan­ guage and so implicitly apologizing for the value of his interpretive work, one commentator notes that the interpretation of many Aristotelian texts presupposes something like oracular powers of divination (Sophonias, CAG XXIII,2, 2, 8-13). Such modesty on the part of one of the Greek commentators of Aristotle ought to shake any confidence we might have in definitive interpretations of certain difficult or ambiguous Aristotelian passages, which, as often as we insist on examining them intensely, con­ stantly answer our exegetical anxiety with a spiteful silence. [conclusion, p. 133]

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Matière et résolution : Anaxagore et ses interprètes, 1996
By: Lefebvre, René
Title Matière et résolution : Anaxagore et ses interprètes
Type Article
Language French
Date 1996
Journal Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger
Volume 186
Issue 1
Pages 31-54
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lefebvre, René
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Review of Hagen, C. (tr.): Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7, 1995
By: Smith, Andrew
Title Review of Hagen, C. (tr.): Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7
Type Article
Language English
Date 1995
Journal The Classical Review, New Series
Volume 45
Issue 2
Pages 464-465
Categories no categories
Author(s) Smith, Andrew
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Review of: C. HAGEN (tr.): Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7. (The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle.) Pp. 195. London: Duckworth, 1994. Cased, ?35

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Alexandre d'Aphrodise et la « magna quaestio ». Rôle et indépendance des scholies dans la tradition byzantine du corpus aristotélicien, 1995
By: Rashed, Marwan
Title Alexandre d'Aphrodise et la « magna quaestio ». Rôle et indépendance des scholies dans la tradition byzantine du corpus aristotélicien
Type Article
Language French
Date 1995
Journal Les Études Classiques
Volume 63
Pages 295–351
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rashed, Marwan
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Quotation in Greco-Roman contexts, 1995
By: Lloyd, Geoffrey
Title Quotation in Greco-Roman contexts
Type Article
Language English
Date 1995
Journal Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident
Volume 17
Pages 141-153
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lloyd, Geoffrey
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The papers in this collection raise a variety of important issues and illustrate the complexity of the phenomena that « quotation » may cover. But for anyone attempting to bring to bear some of the ancient Greek and Latin data on this topic, one immediate problem must be confronted at the outset, namely the difference that different degrees of orality and literacy may make. [introduction, p. 141]

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Plural Worlds in Anaximander, 1994
By: Finkelberg, Aryeh
Title Plural Worlds in Anaximander
Type Article
Language English
Date 1994
Journal The American Journal of Philology
Volume 115
Issue 4
Pages 485-506
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finkelberg, Aryeh
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The ancients ascribed to Anaximander a belief in plural worlds, but the state of the evidence does not make it immediately clear whether these worlds are coexistent or successive. Zeller argued that they could not be coexistent, but his view was challenged by Burnet; yet Cornford, as Kirk puts it, "demonstrated that Burnet's argument . . . rested on a false assessment of the doxographic evidence on this point, as well as on the misinterpretation of several later Presocratics." So far so good, but Kirk goes further and contends not only that coexis- tent worlds have been wrongly assigned to Anaximander, as Zeller and Cornford have shown, but that successive worlds are also a doxo- graphic error; a similar view is argued by Kahn. In this essay I propose to scrutinize our evidence on Anaximander's plural worlds and to exam- ine, systematically and exhaustively, Kirk's and Kahn's criticism of this evidence-both as against the doxographic testimony and on its own merits. [Author's abstract]

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Proclus on Corporeal Space, 1994
By: Schrenk, Lawrence P.
Title Proclus on Corporeal Space
Type Article
Language English
Date 1994
Journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
Volume 76
Pages 151 –167
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schrenk, Lawrence P.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In his survey of ancient theories of space1 the Aristotelian commen- tator Simplicius considers the rather peculiar account offered by the Neoplatonic philosopher, Proclus.2 This philosopher's analysis of space3 is unique in that it contains the unusual claim that space is corporeal.4 In this paper, I shall explore this claim and argue that it is by no means as absurd as might at first appear. It results from a rea- soned attempt to develop a theory of space which meets the needs of Proclus' ontology of emanation. We shall begin by seeking a precise understanding of the assertion that space is a body (through an analysis of two detailed proofs Proclus offers in its support5) and then investi- gate the philosophical motives compelling him to make the claim by inquiring about the function of space in his comprehensive ontology. [Introduction, pp. 151 f.]

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Sur les pas d'un pèlerin païen à travers la Syrie chrétienne: À propos du livre de Michel Tardieu, 1994
By: Bauzou, Thomas
Title Sur les pas d'un pèlerin païen à travers la Syrie chrétienne: À propos du livre de Michel Tardieu
Type Article
Language French
Date 1994
Journal Syria
Volume 71
Issue 1/2
Pages 217-226
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bauzou, Thomas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This à propos to the book Les paysages reliques. Routes et haltes syriennes d'Isidore à Simplicius by Michel Tardieu discusses how Tardieu's book collects and comments on previously unknown fragments by Damascius and Simplicius, the last pagan intellectuals of a region that was in the process of complete Christianisation. [introduction]

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OMOΣE XΩΡEIN: Simplicius, Corollarium de loco 601.26–8 (Diels), 2011
By: Gregoric, Pavel, Helmig, Christoph
Title OMOΣE XΩΡEIN: Simplicius, Corollarium de loco 601.26–8 (Diels)
Type Article
Language English
Date 2011
Journal Classical Quarterly
Volume 61
Issue 2
Pages 722-730
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gregoric, Pavel , Helmig, Christoph
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The  upshot  of  this  article  is  that  the  treatment  of  the  phrase  ὁμόσε  χωρεῖν  in LSJ  can  be  supplemented  as  far  as  later  (Neoplatonic)  authors  are  concerned.  We  have  seen  that  the  translation  ‘to  come  to  issue’  for  the  metaphorical  meaning  of  the  phrase  is  ambiguous  and  needs  to  be  qualified  according  to  the  context.  While  the  expression  usually  betrays  an  adversative  connotation  –  to  counter  or  refute  an  argument  –  later  (Neoplatonic)  authors  also  used  it  in  a  more  neutral  sense  (‘to  come  to  grips  with  an  argument’).  More  to  the  point,  the  phrase  can  also  have  a  
concessive  connotation,  implying  a  concession  or  acceptance.  It  is  precisely  this  
latter  connotation  that  we  find  in  Simplicius’  Corollary  on  Place  601.26–8. [conclusion, p. 730]

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On Simplicius De Caelo, 476, 11 sqq, 1905
By: Shorey, Paul
Title On Simplicius De Caelo, 476, 11 sqq
Type Article
Language English
Date 1905
Journal The Classical Review
Volume 19
Issue 4
Pages 205
Categories no categories
Author(s) Shorey, Paul
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Notes on On Simplicius De Caelo, 476, 11 sqq.

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On Simplicius’ Life and Works: A Response to Hadot, 2015
By: Golitsis, Pantelis
Title On Simplicius’ Life and Works: A Response to Hadot
Type Article
Language English
Date 2015
Journal Aestimatio
Volume 12
Pages 56-82
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This text is a response to Ilsetraut Hadot's book, "Le néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contem¬poraines. Un bilan critique," which provides a critical overview of scholarly research on the Neoplatonist Simplicius. The author critiques Hadot's approach, arguing that her use of the Neoplatonic curriculum and medieval testimonies is an unsafe guide for assessing Simplicius' life and works. The article concludes by thanking Hadot for her previous work on Simplicius and acknowledging the value of her contributions to the field. [introduction/conclusion]

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On Some Epicurean and Lucretian Arguments for the Infinity of the Universe, 1983
By: Avotins, Ivars
Title On Some Epicurean and Lucretian Arguments for the Infinity of the Universe
Type Article
Language English
Date 1983
Journal The Classical Quarterly
Volume 33
Issue 2
Pages 421-427
Categories no categories
Author(s) Avotins, Ivars
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
As is well known,  Epicurus and his followers held that the universe was infinite and 
that its  two  primary components,  void  and atoms,  were each infinite. The void  was 
infinite in extension, the atoms were infinite in number and their total was infinite also 
in extension.' The chief Epicurean proofs of these infinities are found in Epicurus, Ad 
Herod. 41-2,  and in Lucretius 1. 951-1020.  As far as I can see, both the commentators 
to these works and writers on Epicurean physics in general have neglected to take into 
account  some  material pertinent to  these  proofs,  material found  in  Aristotle  and 
especially in his commentators Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius, Simplicius, and 
Philoponus.2 In  this  article I  wish  to  compare  this  neglected information  with  the 
proofs  of infinity found in Epicurus and Lucretius and to discuss their authorship. [p. 421]

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On the Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus, 1998
By: Yavetz, Ido
Title On the Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Volume 52
Issue 3
Pages 221-278
Categories no categories
Author(s) Yavetz, Ido
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In 1877, Schiaparelli published a classic essay on the homocentric spheres of Eu- 
doxus. In the years that followed, it became the standard, definitive historical reconstruc- 
tion of Eudoxian planetary theory. The purpose of this paper is to show that the two texts 
on which Schiaparelli based his reconstruction do not lead in an unequivocal way to 
this interpretation, and that they actually accommodate alternative and equally plausible 
interpretations that possess a clear astronomical superiority compared to Schiaparelli's. One should not mistake all of this for a call to reject Schiaparelli's interpretation in favor 
of the new one. In particular, the alternative interpretation does not recommend itself as a 
historically more plausible basis for reconstructing Eudoxus's and Callippus's planetary theories merely because of its astronomical advantages. It does, however, suggest that 
the exclusivity traditionally awarded to Schiaparelli's reconstruction can no longer be 
maintained, and that the little historical evidence we do possess does not enable us to 
make a justifiable choice between the available alternatives. [Introduction, p. 221]

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Pagans vs. Christians in Late Neoplatonism: Simplicius and Philoponus on the Eternity of the World (forthcoming)
By: Chase, Michael
Title Pagans vs. Christians in Late Neoplatonism: Simplicius and Philoponus on the Eternity of the World (forthcoming)
Type Article
Language English
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chase, Michael
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This text provides a summary of Simplicius' views on Philoponus as a commentator on Aristotle's writings. Simplicius argues that a good commentator must possess qualities such as impartiality, knowledge of Aristotle's works, and an ability to discern the underlying harmony between Aristotle and Plato. Simplicius asserts that Philoponus fails to meet these standards, lacks impartiality, and remains at the surface level of the texts. The text concludes that it is unclear what Philoponus would have thought of Simplicius, but it is likely that his evaluation would not have been positive. [conclusion]

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Paratasis. De la description aspectuelle des verbes grecs à une définition du temps dans le néoplatonisme tardif, 1983
By: Hoffmann, Philippe
Title Paratasis. De la description aspectuelle des verbes grecs à une définition du temps dans le néoplatonisme tardif
Type Article
Language French
Date 1983
Journal Revue des Études Grecques
Volume 96
Issue 455/459
Pages 1-26
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Parmenide neoplatonico: intorno a un nuovo studio sulla presenza di Parmenide nel commento alla Fisica di Simplicio (Book discussion of: Ivan A. Licciardi, Parmenide tràdito, Parmenide tradìto nel commentario di Simplicio alla Fisica di Aristotele (Symbolon 42), Sankt Augustin, Academia Verlag, 2016), 2017
By: Hoine, Pieter d’
Title Parmenide neoplatonico: intorno a un nuovo studio sulla presenza di Parmenide nel commento alla Fisica di Simplicio (Book discussion of: Ivan A. Licciardi, Parmenide tràdito, Parmenide tradìto nel commentario di Simplicio alla Fisica di Aristotele (Symbolon 42), Sankt Augustin, Academia Verlag, 2016)
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2017
Journal Méthexis
Volume 29
Issue 1
Pages 188-198
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoine, Pieter d’
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The text discusses Simplicius' harmonizing approach towards the philosophical doctrines of Plato and Aristotle, particularly focusing on the famous thesis of the supposed 'symphony' or 'harmony' between the two ancient philosophers. Simplicius is seen as a staunch supporter of this thesis, urging readers not to be misled by apparent disagreements between Plato and Aristotle. Instead, Simplicius encourages readers to look beyond the surface level of their words and uncover the fundamental agreement that lies beneath. The book by Ivan Licciardi delves into Simplicius' approach and shows that his harmonizing attitude is not limited to just Plato and Aristotle but extends to almost the entire pre-Socratic philosophy. This broader perspective stems from Simplicius' desire to defend the profound unity of ancient pagan philosophical traditions, possibly in response to the rise of Christianity. One central focus of the book is Simplicius' extensive treatment of Parmenides in his commentary on Aristotle's Physics. Parmenides is considered a crucial figure in Greek thought, and Simplicius views him as a theoretical milestone in which Plato's philosophy, seeking ultimate truth, is exemplified. Thus, Simplicius interrupts his commentary on Aristotle to discuss Parmenides in detail. Simplicius is not merely a transmitter of Parmenidean thought; rather, he interprets Parmenides to showcase the fundamental unity of the pagan philosophical tradition under the influence of Neoplatonism. The book explores Simplicius as an independent philosopher, historian, and interpreter of Eleatic thought, rather than merely a conduit for transmitting Parmenides' ideas. This approach places Simplicius within the context of late antique Neoplatonism, acknowledging the pivotal role played by late Platonists in shaping the transformation of ancient thought, as it was received by medieval and early modern thinkers. The objective of the book is to comprehensively discuss how Simplicius, in his commentary on Aristotle's Physics, treated Parmenides, examining Simplicius' interpretation and rendering of Parmenides instrumental in demonstrating the fundamental unity of the pagan philosophical tradition, under the auspices of Neoplatonism. In summary, the book offers an in-depth exploration of Simplicius' approach to harmonizing ancient philosophical doctrines, focusing on his interpretation of Parmenides and his broader role in late antique Neoplatonism. By delving into Simplicius' philosophical agenda, the book contributes to the study of late ancient Platonism, shedding light on the transformative period in the history of Western thought. [introduction]

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Parmenides B8.38 and Cornford’s Fragment, 2010
By: McKirahan, Richard D.
Title Parmenides B8.38 and Cornford’s Fragment
Type Article
Language English
Date 2010
Journal Ancient Philosophy
Volume 30
Issue 1
Pages 1-14
Categories no categories
Author(s) McKirahan, Richard D.
Editor(s)
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Notes on Parmenides B8.38

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Parmenides' Refutation of Motion and an Implication, 1967
By: Bicknell, Peter J.
Title Parmenides' Refutation of Motion and an Implication
Type Article
Language English
Date 1967
Journal Phronesis
Volume 12
Issue 1
Pages 1-5
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bicknell, Peter J.
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It  is  commonly maintained that  Melissus was the  major forerunner 
of  atomism. This  has  been  argued  on  a  number  of  grounds,  one  of 
these  being  that Leucippus reacted to  a  Melissean  rather  than a 
Parmenidean refutation of  locomotion. In  the  following short  paper  I 
shall challenge this view and point out that not only is one other 
argument  for  Melissus'  influence  on  atomism  insecure,  but  that  Theo- 
phrastus, our most important witness, unequivocally states that 
Leucippus  opposed  a pre-Melissean  eleaticism. [p. 1]

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