| Title | Aristote, Du ciel. Texte établi et traduit par Paul Moraux. Introduction |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1965 |
| Published in | Aristote, Du ciel. Texte établi et traduit par Paul Moraux |
| Pages | VII-CXC |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Moraux, Paul |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The introduction discusses the object and structure of Aristotle's treatise De caelo, which presents a challenge for commentators due to its lack of unity. While some ancient commentators saw the study of the world as a whole as the main object of the treatise, others focused on the study of the celestial body and its relation to the sublunar world. The modern understanding of the genesis of Aristotle's works suggests that the treatise may have been formed by combining previously independent monographs. Additionally, Aristotle himself may have attempted to give his works a coherent structure, but did so in a somewhat artificial way. Despite these challenges, the treatise is seen as an important work in the history of philosophy and science. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EzAHeSeExATtJIm |
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| Title | Empedocles fr. 35. 14-15 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1965 |
| Journal | The Classical Review |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | O'Brien, Denis |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This text discusses the interpretation of the word "zôros" in a couplet attributed to Empedocles, as quoted by various ancient authors such as Plutarch, Simplicius, Theophrastus, Aristotle, Athenaeus, and Eustathius. The author considers the different meanings attributed to the word, including mixed and unmixed, and argues that the context and source of the quotations must be considered in interpreting the couplet. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/i3e86dj5n6bGM5G |
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| Title | Anaximander: Zu den Quellen und seiner Einordnung im Vorsokratischen Denken |
| Type | Article |
| Language | German |
| Date | 1964 |
| Journal | Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 59-72 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Schwabl, Hans |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| ANAXIMANDERZU DEN QUELLEN UND SEINER EINORDNUNG IM VORS OKRATISCHEN DENKEN. Hans Schwabl Die alten Milesier können erst nach einiger kritischer Vorarbeit Ge genstand begriffsgeschichtlicher Forschung sein. Der Anfang der grie chischen Philosophie ist uns ja nur durch die Berichte Späterer überliefert und aus dem Blickwinkel einer Problemstellung, die nicht mehr die der ersten Philosophen ist. So scheint der Versuch, die Eigenart der milesischen Philosophie zu bestimmen, zunächst so gut wie aussichtslos, insbesondere wenn man bedenkt, daß nicht einmal die eigentliche Quelle unserer Nach richten, das Werk Theophrasts, uns als solche überkommen ist, sondern daß wir auch hier erst rekonstruieren müssen.Der Anfang muß also sein, zu erforschen, was Theophrast gesagt und gemeint hat. Erst dann stellt sich die Aufgabe einer Rückübersetzung sei ner Berichte ins Archaische. Diese Rückübersetzung ist nur möglich inner halb einer entwicklungsgeschichtlichen Linie, die von den Früheren zu den Milesiern1) und von diesen wieder zu den späteren Vorsokratikern2) zu ziehen ist. In unserer kurzen Skizze kann das dafür schon Geleistete bzw. noch zu Leistende nur angedeutet werden. Wir beschränken uns außerdem auf Anaximander, einmal wegen der besonderen Stellung, die ihm zukommt, dann aber auch wegen der Quellenlage, die, wenn man sie nur recht einzuschätzen weiß, doch einigermaßen tragfähige Schlüsse auf den Ansatzpunkt und die Eigenart dieses frühen Denkers gestattet. [pp. 59 f.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/TtvN2KY9lnbgZdC |
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| Title | The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1963 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Momigliano, Arnaldo |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The relations between Paganism and Christianity in the fourth century seemed a suitable theme for a course of lectures at the Warburg Institute. The eight lectures here collected were delivered in the academic year 1958-9 and are published as they were delivered. It was, however, considered expedient to translate into English the two lectures which were given in French and the one which was in German.. The lecturers were left free to choose their own subject and to add the notes they wanted for publication. Specialists will judge each paper on its individual merits. For the general reader I have added, by way of introduction, a few pages on the problem of Christianity and the decline of the Roman empire. They were originally part of the two Taft Lectures which I delivered in the University of Cincinnati in 1959. A. M." [preface] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ztVhur4G6ufes1n |
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| Title | Simplicius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | German |
| Date | 1963 |
| Published in | Die Philosophie der Griechen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung |
| Pages | 909-915 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Zeller, Eduard |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/jquyO8rap8qG2yd |
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| Title | Zenone. Testimonianze e frammenti |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Italian |
| Date | 1963 |
| Publication Place | Florence |
| Publisher | La Nuova ltalia |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Untersteiner, M. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Questo volume offre la prima edizione integrale dei frammenti e delle testimonianze su Zenone di Elea, grande filosofo presocratico, allievo di Parmenide e padre della dialettica. La traduzione, con testo greco a fronte, e l’ampio commento consentono di ricostruire l’immagine dell’Eleate, celebre per i suoi argomenti contro il movimento e la molteplicità. Emerge la figura di un filosofo consapevole che l’esistenza è una continua tensione tra l’unità realizzata dalla ragione (logos) e la molteplicità degli eventi offerti dall’esperienza, i quali vanno affrontati nella loro problematicità e anche contraddittorietà. Egli opera un attacco possente e complessivo alla realtà fenomenica, insegnando all’Occidente a misurarsi con le aporie, tanto che i suoi paradossi sono ancora al centro della filosofia, della fisica e della matematica contemporanee. Lucia Palpacelli è docente di Storia della filosofia antica all’Università di Macerata. Tra i suoi scritti ricordiamo: L’«Eutidemo» di Platone. Una commedia straordinariamente seria (Vita e Pensiero, 2009); Aristotele interprete di Platone. Anima e cosmo (Morcelliana, 2013). È tra gli autori di Filosofia antica. Una prospettiva multifocale, a cura di Arianna Fermani e Maurizio Migliori (Scholé, 2020). [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/GsDR2BtLWn5dXja |
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| Title | The Problem of the Souls of the Spheres. From the Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle through the Arabs and St. Thomas to Kepler |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1962 |
| Journal | Dumbarton Oaks Papers |
| Volume | 16 |
| Pages | 65-93 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Wolfson, Harry Austryn |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Kepler, who, as we all know, lived under the new heaven created by Copernicus, discusses the question whether the planets are moved by Intelligences or by souls or by nature. His consideration of Intelligences as possible movers of the planets refers to a view held by those who in the Middle Ages lived under the old Ptolemaic heaven, the term Intelligences being, by a complexity of miscegenation, a descendant of what Aristotle describes as incorporeal substances. His consideration of souls or nature as possible movers of the planets touches upon a topic which was made into a problem b y the Byzantine Greek commentators of Aristotle.In this paper I shall try to show how the Byzantine commentators, in their study of the text of Aristotle, were confronted with a certain problem, how they solved that problem, and how their solution of that problem led to other problems and solutions, all of which lingered in philosophic literature down to Kepler. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/M4I0x6wRyI5xwdf |
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| Title | The Neoplatonic One and Plato’s Parmenides |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1962 |
| Journal | Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association |
| Volume | 93 |
| Pages | 389–401 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Rist, John M. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| As long ago as 1928 Professor E. R. Dodds' demonstrated the dependence of the One of Plotinus on an interpretation of the first hypothesis of the Parmenides. His demonstration has been universally accepted. But Dodds not only showed the depen- dence of Plotinus on the Parmenides but also offered an account of the history of the doctrine of the One between the late fourth century B.C. and the third century A.D. His view is that the first three hypotheses of the Parmenides were already treated in what we should call a Neoplatonic fashion by Moderatus, a Neo- pythagorean of the second half of the first century A.D.; further, that Moderatus was not the originator of this interpretation, whose origins can in fact be traced back through Eudorus (ca. 25 B.C.) and the Neopythagoreans of his day to the Old Academy. Though Dodds is somewhat unclear at this point,2 he seems to suggest that already before the time of Eudorus the Parmenides was being interpreted in Neopythagorean fashion. In order to check this derivation, we should look at the three stages of it in detail. These stages are the Neopythagoreanism of Moderatus, the theories of Eudorus, and those of Speusippus and the Old Academy in general. [p. 389] |
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| Title | Empedocles, fr. 35. 12-15 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1962 |
| Journal | The Classical Review |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-111 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Arundel, Maureen Rosemary |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This text discusses the interpretation and translation of a fragment of Theophrastus and Plutarch. The word "zôros" is of particular concern, as there is difficulty in determining its meaning, with some suggesting it means "mixed" while others argue it means "undiluted." The author suggests that the reading of the Empedocles line should be restored to "zôra" meaning "undiluted" and that the modern interpretation of "mixed" is unjustifiable. The text also examines the use of "zôra" in Philumenus' work and argues that there is no occurrence in which it means "mixed." [whole text] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/0KVfT1jwCVuVr5m |
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| Title | The Framework of Greek Cosmology |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1961 |
| Journal | The Review of Metaphysics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 676-684 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Robinson, John |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The treatises which form the Hippocratic Corpus are not the work of a single individual, and there is abundant evidence that they were itten over a period of at least two hundred years. It is, there ore, essential, in attempting to reconstruct the scientific world view of the early period, that we rely so far as possible on treatises belonging to this period. Unfortunately, in the present state of Hippocratic studies, it is impossible to date these works with any exactitude. On the other hand, certain of them belong pretty clearly to the fifth century; and it seems fairly well established that the view of the constitution of man which most of them assume dates from the time of Alcmaeon, who flourished around the turn of the century. Since this view is based upon an analogy between microcosm and macrocosm, the processes involved in sickness and health reflect on a small scale the greater processes which constitute the life of the cosmos as a whole; thus, indirectly, these treatises illuminate in striking ways aspects of the larger world-view implicit in the fragments of the early cosmologists, but obscured by the fewness of these fragments and the imperfect state in which they have been preserved. In the present study they are used to illuminate just such obscurities. [pp. 676 f.] |
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| Title | The historiographical project of the Lyceum |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity |
| Pages | 117-165 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Zhmud, Leonid |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This text discusses the historiographical project of the Lyceum, a school of thought in ancient Greece. It examines the two main groups of ideas that influenced the Peripatetic historiography of science and the related ideas of the scientists regarding the nature of science. The development of mathematics into an axiomatic-deductive system determined the parameters for the history of science, with the history of science being a history of those results whose significance is acknowledged by the contemporary scientific community. However, the past is not rewritten each time science takes a step forward because of the cumulative character of scientific development, which allows for the integration of old notions into new theories. The text also notes the scarcity of sources from the classical period regarding the views of science held by mathematicians, astronomers, or natural scientists. Despite this, the scientific disciplines contemporary to Eudemus shaped the genre of the history of science. [introduction] |
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| Title | The history of astronomy |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity |
| Pages | 228-277 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Zhmud, Leonid |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Access | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/enPxrrLU4Nr5K6j |
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| Title | The history of geometry |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity |
| Pages | 166-214 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Zhmud, Leonid |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Access | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/sPvc6ugabcU71xS |
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| Title | The interpretation of Aristotle’s Categories in the Neoplatonic Commentary Tradition |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2017 |
| Published in | Categories. Histories and Perspectives |
| Pages | 35-48 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hauer, Mareike |
| Editor(s) | D'Anna, Giuseppe , Fossati, Lorenzo |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/orREzCi0lLEUII9 |
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| Title | The notion of ἐπιτηδειότης in Simplicius' discussion of quality |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2016 |
| Journal | Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale |
| Volume | 27 |
| Pages | 65-83 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hauer, Mareike |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
In this paper, I will focus on the meaning and function of epitêdeiotês in Simplicius and I will argue, based on an analysis of different passages of chapter 8 of Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, that epitêdeiotês is not a mere substitute for the Aristotelian notion of dynamis, in Simplicius either. However, it will become apparent that Simplicius does not make any effort to clearly distinguish epitêdeiotês from dynamis, an aspect that might have led Todd to assume that epitêdeiotês is a mere substitute for the Aristotelian notion of dynamis. The fact that Simplicius does not explicitly distinguish epitêdeiotês from dynamis does, however, not necessarily imply that he does not make anydistinctions between the two notions. [Introduction, p. 67] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iAt7auDa0df2ob0 |
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| Title | The philosopher and society in late antiquity. Essays in honour of Peter Brown |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | Oakville |
| Publisher | The Classical Press of Wales |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Smith, Andrew |
| Translator(s) |
The philosophers of Late Antiquity have sometimes appeared to be estranged from society. 'We must flee everything physical' is one of the most prominent ideas taken by Augustine from Platonic literature. This collection of new studies by leading writers on Late Antiquity treats both the principles of metaphysics and the practical engagement of philosophers. It points to a more substantive and complex involvement in worldly affairs than conventional handbooks admit. [editors abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/AmHPOEigYJT4NLD |
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| Title | The school of Alexander? |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1990 |
| Published in | Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence |
| Pages | 83-111 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Sharples, Robert W. |
| Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
| Translator(s) |
at date the collections were assembled.16 17It is not my concern here to give a full enumeration of the works attributed to Alexander or to classify them in detail. That has been done elsewhere both by myself and by others. Rather, I will proceed to a discussion of what the works can tell us about the context in which they arose. It will be helpful to start with consideration of the relation of Alexander’s works to those of his predecessors, teachers and contem poraries. [p. 85] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/OYiKwntkTSRG9Vz |
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| Title | The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Revue d’histoire des textes |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 351-358 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarán, Leonardo |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This paper tries to establish that supralinear omicron is not, as most elementary introductions to Greek paleography have it, a simple abbreviation for the ending omicron-sigma. Rather, it was originally a symbol for suspension that later medieval scribes used also for other subordinated purposes which are impossible to classify. Some examples will be given in what follows. For a long time this interpretation had seemed so obvious to me that during a 1985 colloquium on Simplicius in Paris, it surprised me that some members of the audience objected that supralinear omicron is simply an abbreviation for omicron-sigma. As this occurred during my discussion of a passage of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, and as several of my examples come from that work, it is convenient to give a list of the manuscripts used by Diels and also of additional prim ary witnesses either rejected by, or not known to him. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZJr3WclOTT5e1jS |
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| Title | The use of Stoic references in Simplicius’ discussion of quality (forthcoming) |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2023 |
| Published in | Dealing with disagreement. The construction of traditions in later ancient philosophy (forthcoming) |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hauer, Mareike |
| Editor(s) | Ulacco, Angela , Joosse, Albert |
| Translator(s) |
The chapter deals with Simplicius’ references to the Stoic conception of quality in his commentary on chapter eight of Aristotle’s Categories. In particular, I will focus on the nature and possible purpose of these references. The first part of the chapter deals with the question about the origin of these references. The second and third part offer an analysis of different aspects of the Stoic conception of quality in comparison to Simplicius’ account. I will show that Simplicius conceives of the Stoic notion of quality as an alternative yet comparable conception to the Aristotelian one presented in the Categories. Moreover, I will conclude that Simplicius’ criticism of the Stoic doctrine serves as a means to show the explanatory superiority of the Aristotelian conception. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/1MPvdcR43DzLvmz |
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| Title | The writings of the De anima commentators |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1996 |
| Published in | Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima" |
| Pages | 53-71 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) |
So far we have discussed the work of our commentators as if it was simply scholarship and philosophical exposition, whether of their own philosophy or that of Aristotle which most of them held to be fundamen tally the same. There is, however, another aspect of the commentaries which, while not prominent, should not be forgotten. That is the way in which doing such work was an integral part of a life aimed at the greatest possible degree of return to that higher reality from which the commenta tors saw human life as a decline and separation. It is becoming increasingly better understood that for the great majority of Greek philo sophers, philosophy was not only a way of thinking but a way of life.70 The late Neoplatonists seem to have gone even further, and regarded the production of commentaries as a kind of service to the divine, much as a Christian monk who engaged in scholarship would have seen it in that light So we find at the end of Simplicius’ commentary on the De caelo what can only be described as a prayer: ‘Oh lord and artificer of the universe and the simple bodies in it, to you and all that has been brought into being by you I offer this work as a hymn, being eager to see as a revelation the magnitude of your works and to proclaim it to those who are worthy, so that thinking no mean or mortal thoughts about you we may make obeisance to you in accordance with the high place you occupy in respect of all that is produced by you’ (731.25-9). Those who think that ancient philosophy ceased to be of interest some three and a half centuries before these words were written and who may from time to time consult Sim plicius for an opinion on the meaning of an Aristotelian text, are unlikely ever to see these words, or those that come at the end of the commentary on the Enckeiridion (138.22-3). Without them they cannot fully under stand the nature of works beyond whose surface they never penetrate, works whose very composition could be seen as an act of reverence to the gods of paganism. [Conclusion, p. 71] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/1xXItSZspUfzEIR |
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It is becoming \r\nincreasingly better understood that for the great majority of Greek philo\u00ad\r\nsophers, philosophy was not only a way of thinking but a way of life.70 The \r\nlate Neoplatonists seem to have gone even further, and regarded the \r\nproduction of commentaries as a kind of service to the divine, much as a \r\nChristian monk who engaged in scholarship would have seen it in that \r\nlight So we find at the end of Simplicius\u2019 commentary on the De caelo what \r\ncan only be described as a prayer: \u2018Oh lord and artificer of the universe \r\nand the simple bodies in it, to you and all that has been brought into being \r\nby you I offer this work as a hymn, being eager to see as a revelation the \r\nmagnitude of your works and to proclaim it to those who are worthy, so \r\nthat thinking no mean or mortal thoughts about you we may make \r\nobeisance to you in accordance with the high place you occupy in respect \r\nof all that is produced by you\u2019 (731.25-9). Those who think that ancient \r\nphilosophy ceased to be of interest some three and a half centuries before \r\nthese words were written and who may from time to time consult Sim\u00ad\r\nplicius for an opinion on the meaning of an Aristotelian text, are unlikely \r\never to see these words, or those that come at the end of the commentary \r\non the Enckeiridion (138.22-3). Without them they cannot fully under\u00ad\r\nstand the nature of works beyond whose surface they never penetrate, \r\nworks whose very composition could be seen as an act of reverence to the \r\ngods of paganism. 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