Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 1-3

Informationen zum Autor Themistius was an ancient Greek statesman, rhetorician, and philosopher. He was admitted to the senate in 355, and was prefect of Constantinople in 384CE. Of his many works, thirty-three orations remain, alongside commentaries on the works of Aristotle. Robert B. Todd is Quondam Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia. He has translated three volumes of Themistius' paraphrase of Aristotle's Physics in this series, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Klappentext Themistius' treatment of Books 1-3 of Aristotle's Physics presents central features of Aristotle's thought about principles, causation, change and infinity. The tradition of synthesising and epitomising exegesis is here raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking a selective, but telling, account of the earlier Peripatetic and Presocratic tradition, Themistius creates a framework that can still be profitably used in the study of Aristotle. This volume contains the first English translation of Themistius' commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography. Zusammenfassung A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a path breaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Textual Emendations Translation Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited General Index

Product details

• Authors: Themistius, Robert B. Todd
• Assisted by: Robert B. Todd (Translation), Todd Robert B. (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9780715639221
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3922-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristo; Ancient Commentators on Aristotle; Ancient Commentators on Aristo
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ancient Greece, SCIENCE / Physics / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Physics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500