Simplicius On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 [Paperback]

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 fromMelissus,ParmenidesandZeno,sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle'sPhysicsand onPorphyry. 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 groundbreakingAncient Commentators on Aristotleseries, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English.

Conventions
Abbreviations
Textual Emendations
Introduction
Translation
1.3 15
1.4 58
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Subject Index
Index of Passages

Pamela Hubyis former Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK.
C.C.W. Tayloris Professor and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK.