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Title	The Greek manuscripts of Aristotle’s Physics
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2021
Published in	Aristotle's >Physics< VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.), Introduction, Edition, and Glossaries, Contributor: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper
Pages	CXIII-CLXXXVII
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hasper, Pieter Sjoerd
Editor(s)	Arnzen, Rüdiger
Translator(s)

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Aristotle's 'Physics' VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.), Introduction, Edition, and Glossaries, Contributor: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper, 2021
By: Arnzen, Rüdiger, Hasper, Pieter Sjoerd (Contributor), Aristoteles

Title	Aristotle's 'Physics' VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.), Introduction, Edition, and Glossaries, Contributor: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	2021
Publication Place	Berlin – Boston
Publisher	De Gruyter
Series	Scientia Graeco-Arabica
Volume	30
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Arnzen, Rüdiger , Hasper, Pieter Sjoerd (Contributor) , Aristoteles
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/NrwzIfTha21a5vI

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Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator, 2021
By: Tarrant, Harold

Title	Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator
Type	Article
Language	English
Date	2021
Journal	History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
Volume	24
Issue	1
Pages	210-241
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

Olympiodorus led the Platonist school of philosophy at Alexandria for several decades in the sixth century, and both Platonic and Aristotelian commentaries ascribed to him survive. During this time the school’s attitude to the teaching of Aristotelian syllogistic, originally owing something to Ammonius, changed markedly, with an early tendency to reinforce the teaching of syllogistic even in Platonist lectures giving way to a greater awareness of its limitations. The vocabulary for arguments and their construction becomes far commoner than the language of syllogistic and syllogistic figures, and also of demonstration. I discuss the value of these changes for the dating of certain works, especially where the text lectured on does not demand different emphases. The commitment to argument rather than to authority continues, but a greater emphasis eventually falls on the establishment of the premises than on formal validity.

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/5sE7J9nmDwQKOuK

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Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition, 2021
By: Erler, Michael (Ed.), Heßler, Jan Erik (Ed.), Petrucci, Federico Maria (Ed.)

Title	Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition
Type	Edited Book
Language	English
Date	2021
Publication Place	Cambridge – New York
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Categories	no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s)	Erler, Michael , Heßler, Jan Erik , Petrucci, Federico Maria
Translator(s)

All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition. [author's abstract]

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

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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]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3F7zPZTXtgRBhU7

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Logic and Interpretation: Syllogistic Reconstructions in Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, 2021
By: Harari, Orna

Title	Logic and Interpretation: Syllogistic Reconstructions in Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Type	Article
Language	English
Date	2021
Journal	History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
Volume	24
Issue	1
Pages	122-139
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Harari, Orna
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

In this article I explain three puzzling features of Simplicius’ use of syllogistic reconstructions in his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics: (1) Why does he reconstruct Aristotle’s non-argumentative remarks? (2) Why does he identify the syllogistic figure of an argument but does not explicitly present its reconstruction? (3) Why in certain lemmata does he present several reconstructions of the same argument? Addressing these questions, I argue that these puzzling features are an expression of Simplicius’ assumption that formal reasoning underlies Aristotle’s prose, hence they reflect his attempt to capture as faithfully as possible Aristotle’s actual mode of reasoning. I show further that, as a consequence of this seemingly descriptive use of syllogistic reconstructions, logic serves Simplicius not only as an expository and clarificatory tool of certain interpretations or philosophical views, but also motivates and shapes his exegetical stances and approach. [conclusion, p. 138]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/mWf9pkyGLYXgUke

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Conflicting Authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the Self-Moving Soul, 2021
By: Aerts, Saskia, Erler, Michael (Ed.), Heßler, Jan Erik (Ed.), Petrucci, Federico Maria (Ed.)

Title	Conflicting Authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the Self-Moving Soul
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2021
Published in	Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition
Pages	178-200
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Aerts, Saskia
Editor(s)	Erler, Michael , Heßler, Jan Erik , Petrucci, Federico Maria
Translator(s)

The attempt to conceptualise Aristotle’s authority and to adapt it to a Platonist perspective is the framework within which the well-known Neoplatonist harmonisation of Plato and Aristotle must be set. This does not imply, however, that after Porphyry one must envisage a flat and homogeneous scenario: rather, the specific issue of how to appropriate Aristotle’s doctrine and, consequently, of how to square Plato’s and Aristotle’s authority, becomes crucial in itself in later Neoplatonism, as Saskia Aerts shows (Chapter ). As a matter of fact, the project of harmonising Aristotle and Plato and of regarding them both as authorities – albeit to different extents – also implies dealing with all those texts and doctrines which seem to sharply contradict one another, and this requires the production of exegetical strategies and ways to balance them. This clearly emerges from Hermias’ and Simplicius’ treatment of the doctrine of the self-moving soul, a core Platonic doctrine which was severely criticised by Aristotle. Aerts shows to what extent the commitment to the joint authority of both Plato and Aristotle can lead Platonists to exegetical twists and extreme harmonising strategies: moving along the broad lines of the Middle Platonist opening to several authoritative figures, by focusing on Aristotle’s role and elevating him to a very high status these authors had to produce a new ideological framework for the management of the issue of multiple authorities. [introduction]

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pMDvwO0ZOjUuYYk

Boéthos de Sidon: Exégète d’Aristote et philosophe, 2020
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo (Ed.), Rashed, Marwan (Ed.)

Title	Boéthos de Sidon: Exégète d’Aristote et philosophe
Type	Edited Book
Language	French
Date	2020
Publication Place	Berlin – Boston
Publisher	De Gruyter
Series	Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina (CAGB)
Volume	1
Categories	no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s)	Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Rashed, Marwan
Translator(s)

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pGhQw3O40yUVljE

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, 2020
By: Harry, Chelsea C. (Ed.), Habash, Justin  (Ed.)

Title	Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought
Type	Edited Book
Language	English
Date	2020
Publication Place	Leiden – Boston
Publisher	Brill
Series	Ancient Philosophy
Volume	6
Categories	no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s)	Harry, Chelsea C. , Habash, Justin
Translator(s)

In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, contributions by GottfriedHeinemann, Andrew Gregory, Justin Habash, Daniel W. Graham,Oliver Primavesi, Owen Goldin, Omar D. Álvarez Salas, ChristopherKurfess, Dirk L. Couprie, Tiberiu Popa, Timothy J. Crowley, LilianaCarolina Sánchez Castro, Iakovos Vasiliou, Barbara Sattler, Rosemary Wright, and a foreword by Patricia Curd explore the influences of early Greek science (6-4th c. BCE) on thephilosophical works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hippocratics. Rather than presenting an unified narrative, the volume supports various ways to understand the development of the concept of nature, the emergence of science, and the historical context of topics such as elements, principles, soul, organization, causation,purpose, and cosmos in ancient Greek philosophy. [author's abstract]

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

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Simplicius, 2020
By: Helmig, Christoph, Zalta, Edward N. (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2020
Published in	The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Helmig, Christoph
Editor(s)	Zalta, Edward N.
Translator(s)

Simplicius of Cilicia (ca. 480–560 CE), roughly a contemporary of John Philoponus, is without doubt the most important Neoplatonic commentator on Aristotle and one of the two most influential exegetes within the Aristotelian tradition, along with Alexander of Aphrodisias (around 200 CE). Simplicius’ works are an unmatched source for the intellectual traditions that preceded him: Presocratic, Platonic, and especially the Peripatetic tradition. He is also an independent thinker in his own right, with a coherent philosophical agenda. Best known for his tendency to harmonise Plato and Aristotle, he nevertheless criticised Aristotle on several occasions and considered himself a loyal follower of Plato. Writing in an age when Christianity was the dominant religious and political view, Simplicius aimed to show that the Hellenic tradition is not only much older, but also more venerable and more coherent than the Christian tradition. Unimpressed by charges of alleged contradictions among Greek philosophers, Simplicius repeatedly proclaimed that “the ancient wisdom (palaia philosophia) remains unrefuted” (In Phys. 77.11). It is also noteworthy that, like Proclus and other Neoplatonists, Simplicius presents himself as a thinker for whom philosophy and theology form a complete unity. As has frequently been observed, Simplicius’ works, despite their scholarly outlook, have an important spiritual dimension (see §5). Simplicius’ commentaries have only recently been studied with an eye to his own philosophical views. He was long considered a mere source for Greek philosophy, and, as noted by Baltussen (2010: 714), Simplicius’ importance as a source for ancient Greek philosophy and science has long overshadowed his contributions as an independent thinker. Nineteenth-century Quellenforschung was especially interested in his Commentary on the Physics, which was edited in two volumes (Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores/quattuor posteriores, comprising almost 1500 pages) by Hermann Diels; this commentary served as the basis for Diels’ edition of the Doxographi Graeci (Greek Doxographers), which includes the main doctrines on natural philosophy according to ancient doxographical compendia. One of the aims of this entry is to emphasise that Simplicius’ writings have much more to offer than a mere doxography of his predecessors—but always bearing in mind that it is only possible to appreciate how Simplicius arranges and interprets the material at his disposal by duly attending to his Neoplatonic agenda.

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https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/simplicius/

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Addenda Eudemea, 2006
By: Baltussen, Han

Title	Addenda Eudemea
Type	Article
Language	English
Date	2006
Journal	Leeds International Classical Studies
Volume	5
Issue	1
Pages	1-28
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

This  paper  presents  16  fragments  of  the  Peripatetic  philosopher  Eudemus  (c. 350-290 BC), which were not printed in the (still) standard edition of Wehrli (1955; revised  1969),  but  which  had  been  signalled  in  passing  by  De  Lacy  (1957)  and  Gottschalk (1973). The aim is to provide a text with translation and brief annotation, to be included in a future edition, and to argue that context can add to our understanding of these  passages.  Their  importance  lies  in  bringing  greater  comprehensiveness  to  the  collection,  offering  at  least  five  additional  (near)  quotations,  and  illustrating  the  new  trend  in  fragment  studies  to  contextualize  fragments  on  several  levels  in  order  to  gain  further insight into their value and reception. [Author's abstract]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/eI5Vl8PkHDDBXGU

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Addendum: Simplicius, In Aristotelis Categorias Commentarium (CAG 8), V, P. 109, 5-110, 25 (Kalbfleish), 2009
By: Narbonne, Jean-Marc, Narbonne, Jean-Marc (Ed.), Poirier, Paul-Hubert (Ed.)

Title	Addendum: Simplicius, In Aristotelis Categorias Commentarium (CAG 8), V, P. 109, 5-110, 25 (Kalbfleish)
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2009
Published in	Gnose et Philosophie. Études en hommage à Pierre Hadot
Pages	97-100
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Narbonne, Jean-Marc
Editor(s)	Narbonne, Jean-Marc , Poirier, Paul-Hubert
Translator(s)

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/KkAR8HbRTQQWWuB

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After Chalcedon. Studies in Theology and Church History. Offered to Professor Albert van Roey for his seventieth birthday, 1985
By: Laga, Carl (Ed.), Munitiz, Joseph A. (Ed.), Rompay, Lucas van (Ed.)

Title	After Chalcedon. Studies in Theology and Church History. Offered to Professor Albert van Roey for his seventieth birthday
Type	Edited Book
Language	undefined
Date	1985
Publication Place	Leuven
Publisher	Itgeverij Peeters Leuven
Categories	no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s)	Laga, Carl , Munitiz, Joseph A. , Rompay, Lucas van
Translator(s)

This volume in honour of Prof. P.H.L. Eggermont, Indologist and Classicist, is focused on North and Northwest India, and on the adjacent regions to the west, with special attention to the Hellenistic monarchies, the historical geography of India, the ancient trade routes, and the contacts between India, Greece and Rome. The contributions of this Festschrift provide a bulk of material, especially for those interested in relations between Classical and Oriental philological, historical, archaeological, and geographical sources. Besides, the volume contains a biography and a bibliography of Prof. Eggermont. [author's abstract]

Online Resources

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

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Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s Commentary on Epictetus’s Emcheiridion, 2014
By: Lawrence, Marilynn, Layne, Danielle A. (Ed.), Tarrant, Harold (Ed.)

Title	Akrasia and Enkrateia in Simplicius’s Commentary on Epictetus’s Emcheiridion
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2014
Published in	The Neoplatonic Socrates
Pages	127-142
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Lawrence, Marilynn
Editor(s)	Layne, Danielle A. , Tarrant, Harold
Translator(s)

This text explores the problem of akrasia, or the phenomenon of knowingly erring, within Socratic philosophy, and its relationship to Socratic intellectualism. The denial of akrasia by Socrates and Aristotle's response to it have been discussed by scholars, with interpretations and critiques of the argument that no one willingly chooses to do what they know is wrong. Simplicius attempted to reconcile these differing views and harmonize the phenomenon of akrasia while preserving Socrates' intellectualist position through his commentary on Epictetus's Encheiridion. The text concludes with Simplicius's reflections on the antiphilosophical culture of his time and the importance of philosophical education. [introduction/conclusion]

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Albert le Grand sur la dérivation des formes géométriques: Un témoignage de l'influence de Simplicius par le biais des Arabes? (forthcoming), 2008
By: Chase, Michael

Title	Albert le Grand sur la dérivation des formes géométriques: Un témoignage de l'influence de Simplicius par le biais des Arabes? (forthcoming)
Type	Article
Language	French
Date	2008
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Chase, Michael
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

The text discusses Albert the Great's arguments in his commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge, focusing on the second of the three questions Porphyry posed about universals: whether they are corporeal or incorporeal. Albert attributes the idea of the separate existence of lines and surfaces in mathematical bodies to Plato. This attribution is problematic, but it is not absurd to suggest that Plato taught such doctrines, according to the Tübingen School's work on Plato's unwritten teachings. The text suggests that Albert's presentation of Plato's philosophy reflects his reliance on difficult translations of Aristotle and his commentators, rather than direct engagement with Plato's dialogues. [introduction/conclusion]

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Alessandro di Afrodisia, Commentario al De caelo di Aristotele. Frammenti del primo libro, 2004
By: Rescigno, Andrea (Ed.), Alexander Aphrodisiensis,

Title	Alessandro di Afrodisia, Commentario al De caelo di Aristotele. Frammenti del primo libro
Type	Monograph
Language	Italian
Date	2004
Publication Place	Amsterdam
Publisher	Hakkert
Series	Supplementi di Lexis
Volume	26
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Alexander Aphrodisiensis
Editor(s)	Rescigno, Andrea
Translator(s)	Rescigno, Andrea(Rescigno, Andrea)

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Alexander of Aphrodisias in the later Greek commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima, 1987
By: Blumenthal, Henry J.

Title	Alexander of Aphrodisias in the later Greek commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1987
Published in	Aristoteles - Werk und Wirkung. Paul Moraux gewidmet. Bd. 2: Kommentierung, Überlieferung, Nachleben
Pages	90-106
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

These  are  a  few  examples  of  how  the  Neoplatonist  commenta
tors  confronted  Alexander  on  matters  where  differences  could 
hardly fail  to  arise. What happens  is  clear enough.  But it would be 
wrong to think that these principles of interpretation are not applied 
at  other  points  in  the  work.  Let  us  take  an  apparently  innocuous 
issue like the section where Aristotle discusses locomotion under the 
stimulus  of the  appetitive  faculty  (433  b  8sqq.). Alexander, giving a 
clearly  Aristotelian  explanation,  said  that  the  faculty  was  moved 
accidentally.  Plutarch  differed,  and  said  that  the  activity  of  the 
appetitive  faculty  is  movement:  this  Simplicius  describes  as  a  Pla
tonic explanation, and prefers it (302,23-30).44 On the other hand, a 
few  pages  below  Simplicius  prefers  Alexander  to  Plutarch  on  the 
question  whether  moving  but  ungenerated  entities  have  sense-per
ception  (320,33-34):  we  have  already  looked  at  his  and  Stephanus’ account  of  this  passage.45  As  we  indicated,  Stephanus  there quotes 
Alexander only to disagree with him, and here we have at least one 
piece  of  evidence  to  show  that  Neoplatonist  commentators  could 
take a different view of the same passage. If we had more examples 
of texts where Alexander’s views of the De anima were discussed by 
more than one of his successors, we should be able to form a clearer 
picture  of  how  far  the  different  commentators  were  prepared  to 
accept them, and thus incidentally of the precise differences between 
these commentators themselves on the points at issue. [pp. 90 f.]

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Alexander of Aphrodisias on Celestial Motions, 1997
By: Bodnár, István M.

Title	Alexander of Aphrodisias on Celestial Motions
Type	Article
Language	English
Date	1997
Journal	Phronesis
Volume	42
Issue	2
Pages	190-205
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Bodnár, István M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

A number of features of the doctrine of Alexander of Aphrodisias on heavenly motions are beyond reasonable doubt. First and foremost of these is
that he identified the nature of the heavenly spheres with their soul, thereby he could entirely collapse natural motion with voluntary motion into one in their case. Moreover the celestial element, which Alexander tends to call theion sôma, divine body is removed from the components of
the everchanging sublunary world to the extent that it can be a legitimate question whether the substrate of celestial bodies can be called matter, and Alexander can refer to perishable entities as evIua, material in contrast to this sublime element. After identifying the contribution of the nature of the celestial spheres with that of their soul, Alexander follows
Aristotle in setting out a celestial hierarchy, on top of which there is or there are the separate unmoved mover(s), which move(s) by being object(s) of striving and desire for the less perfect entities of the heavens. This much seems to be firmly settled. A number of further issues, however, call for detailed examination. In this paper first I set out to clarify the contributions of the striving of the different celestial spheres, then I turn to describing the interaction between the various motions of the celestial system, and I discuss whether the theory Alexander propounded could have been a fundamental revision, or rather an alternative exposition of the original, Aristotelian celestial theory deploying homocentric spheres. [Introduction, pp. 190 f.]

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Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics. A study of the De mixtione with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary, 1976
By: Todd, Robert B.

Title	Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics. A study of the De mixtione with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary
Type	Monograph
Language	English
Date	1976
Publication Place	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Series	Philosophia antiqua
Volume	28
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Todd, Robert B.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

The importance of  Alexander of  Aphrodisias in the Aristotelian 
tradition in Western  philosophy is  well  established.  This reputa›
tion however rests almost exclusively on his very influential inter›
pretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of the active intellect. The subject 
of the present study, the de mixtione, is a treatise in which he deals 
with  the  philosophically  less  important  topic  of  the  mixture  of 
physical bodies.  My  aim is  to show that both as  an exposition of 
Aristotelian thought and as an extended discussion of Stoic physics 
it offers  an excellent  opportunity to observe  the development  of 
Peripatetic scholasticism  in the face  of  ideas  developed  in post›
Aristotelian  philosophy.  In this  way  I  shall  try to establish  the 
largely unacknowledged importance of Alexander’s contribution to 
the Greek philosophical tradition. 
Alexander  is  still  unfortunately  a  relatively  obscure  author 
and so I  have devoted Part One of this study to a basic description 
of  his works and a  preliminary attempt to place him in his intel›
lectual milieu. His philosophical creativity, as this essay will show, 
has  greater  rein  in  his  short  treatises  than  in  his  monumental 
commentaries, and it is from these works that his relation to other 
philosophical  schools  can  best  be  gauged.  Like  his  de  Jato  the 
de  mixtione is basically an attack on the Stoics, but it also contains 
a  great  deal  of  important source  material and some  constructive 
criticisms of Stoic physics. Much of this I shall evaluate in a com›
mentary in Part Three,  but these  aspects  of  the work  must also 
be seen  in the light of  similar contributions by our other sources 
for  Stoic  physics  as  well  as  Alexander’s  own  overall  relation  to 
Stoicism.  For this reason in Part Two  I  survey the latter before 
undertaking  an  extended  examination  of  Alexander’s  exposition 
and critique of  the Stoic theory of total blending (xpiia~<;  8~’  lSAwv), the main subject of the de  mixtione. [preface]

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Alexander on Physics 2.9, 2012
By: Sharples, Robert W.

Title	Alexander on Physics 2.9
Type	Article
Language	English
Date	2012
Journal	Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
Volume	55
Issue	1
Pages	19-30
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Sharples, Robert W.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

I  want  to  draw  your  attention  today  to  a  report  of  Alexander  in  Simplicius’s  Physics commentary which, as far as I can tell, has escaped the notice of everyone, myself included -  and  I  have rather less excuse than  most,  for,  as we shall  see, the report connects  directly with  issues  about  which  I  have  written  in  other  contexts.  That  was  concerned  with  On coming-to-be  and  passing-away  [hereafter  GC]  2.11,  with  Philoponus’s  commentary thereon,  and  with  Alexander’s  discussion  in  some  of the  Quaestiones\  the  present  paper, with Simplicius’s help, extends the discussion to Physics 2.9; Alexander’s GC commentary, 
and the relevant part of his Physics commentary, are lost. [Introduction, p. 19]

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