Aristotle and His Commentators: Studies in Memory of Paraskevi Kotzia

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This volume includes twelve studies by international specialists on Aristotle and his commentators. Among the topics treated are Aristotle’s political philosophy and metaphysics, the ancient and Byzantine commentators’ scholia on Aristotle’s logic, philosophy of language and psychology as well as studies of broader scope on developmentalism in ancient philosophy and the importance of studying Late Antiquity. 1. The explanatory value of developmental hypotheses as exemplified by the interpretation of Aristotle Christof Rapp Requires Authentication 3 2. About the specificity of the Aristotelian Politics Francisco L. Lisi Requires Authentication 19 3. The debt of Aristotle’s collection of politeiai to the sophistic tradition Chloe Balla Requires Authentication 33 4. Aristotle on Alcmaeon in relation to Pythagoras: an addendum in Metaphysics Alpha? Stavros Kouloumentas Requires Authentication 49 II. COMMENTATORS 5. Late Antiquity: “Whether we like it or not”. An Essay Christian Wildberg Requires Authentication 71 6. Plotinus’ criticism of Aristotle’s doctrine of primary substance and its background Paul Kalligas Requires Authentication 83 7. The Neoplatonic commentators of Aristotle on the origins of language: a new “Tower of Babel”? Maria Chriti Requires Authentication 95 8. The early literary construct of Boethius: Ιn Isagogen Porphyrii commenta, editio prima Dimitrios Z. Nikitas Requires Authentication 107 9. The title of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics Katerina Ierodiakonou and Nikos Agiotis Requires Authentication 131 10. Ammonius Hermeiou on the appearances of ghosts Ioannis Papachristou Requires Authentication 151 11.μετά τινων ἰδίων ἐπιστάσεων: John Philoponus as an editor of Ammonius’ lectures Pantelis Golitsis Requires Authentication 167 12. The Un-Byzantine Byzantine on two sophisms Sten Ebbesen Requires Authentication 195 Bibliography Requires Authentication 207 Index of Names Requires Authentication 219 Index of Passages Requires Authentication 223 List of Contributors