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. Preface Publications by Paraskevi Kotzia Contents I. ARISTOTLE 1. The explanatory value of developmental hypotheses as exemplified by the interpretation of Aristotle 2. About the specificity of the Aristotelian Politics 3. The debt of Aristotle’s collection of politeiai to the sophistic tradition 4. Aristotle on Alcmaeon in relation to Pythagoras: an addendum in Metaphysics Alpha? II. COMMENTATORS 5. Late Antiquity: “Whether we like it or not”. An Essay 6. Plotinus’ criticism of Aristotle’s doctrine of primary substance and its background 7. The Neoplatonic commentators of Aristotle on the origins of language: a new “Tower of Babel”? 8. The early literary construct of Boethius: Ιn Isagogen Porphyrii commenta, editio prima 9. The title of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics 10. Ammonius Hermeiou on the appearances of ghosts 11.μετά τινων ἰδίων ἐπιστάσεων: John Philoponus as an editor of Ammonius’ lectures 12. The Un-Byzantine Byzantine on two sophisms Bibliography Index of Names Index of Passages List of Contributors