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Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took
refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the
Christian Emperor Justinian stopped the teaching of the pagan
Neoplatonist school in Athens. This was one of the earliest
examples of the sixth-century diffusion of the philosophy of the
commentators to other cultures. Tantalisingly, Priscian fully
recorded in Greek the answers provided by the Athenian philosophers
to the king's questions on philosophy and science. But these
answers survive only in a later Latin translation which understood
both the Greek and the subject matter very poorly. Our translators
have often had to reconstruct from the Latin what the Greek would
have been, in order to recover the original sense. The answers
start with subjects close to the Athenians' hearts: the human soul,
on which Priscian was an expert, and sleep and visions. But their
interest may have diminished when the king sought their expertise
on matters of physical science: the seasons, celestial zones,
medical effects of heat and cold, the tides, displacement of the
four elements, the effect of regions on living things, why only
reptiles are poisonous, and winds. At any rate, in 532 AD, they
moved on from the palace, but still under Khosroes' protection.
This is the first translation of the record they left into English
or any modern language. This English translation is accompanied by
an introduction and comprehensive commentary notes, which clarify
and discuss the meaning and implications of the original
philosophy. Part of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series,
the edition makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern
readership and includes additional scholarly apparatus such as a
bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took
refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the
Christian Emperor Justinian stopped the teaching of the pagan
Neoplatonist school in Athens. This was one of the earliest
examples of the sixth-century diffusion of the philosophy of the
commentators to other cultures. Tantalisingly, Priscian fully
recorded in Greek the answers provided by the Athenian philosophers
to the king's questions on philosophy and science. But these
answers survive only in a later Latin translation which understood
both the Greek and the subject matter very poorly. Our translators
have often had to reconstruct from the Latin what the Greek would
have been, in order to recover the original sense. The answers
start with subjects close to the Athenians' hearts: the human soul,
on which Priscian was an expert, and sleep and visions. But their
interest may have diminished when the king sought their expertise
on matters of physical science: the seasons, celestial zones,
medical effects of heat and cold, the tides, displacement of the
four elements, the effect of regions on living things, why only
reptiles are poisonous, and winds. At any rate, in 532 AD, they
moved on from the palace, but still under Khosroes' protection.
This is the first translation of the record they left into English
or any modern language. This English translation is accompanied by
an introduction and comprehensive commentary notes, which clarify
and discuss the meaning and implications of the original
philosophy. Part of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series,
the edition makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern
readership and includes additional scholarly apparatus such as a
bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the
theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in
its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution.
His commentary is translated here without the previously translated
excursus, the "Corollary""on Void, "also available in this series.
Philoponus rejects Aristotle's attack on the very idea of void and
of the possibility of motion in it, even though he thinks that void
never occurs in fact. Philoponus' argument was later to be praised
by Galileo.This volume contains the first English translation of
Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction,
extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.
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 from "Melissus," "Parmenides" and
"Zeno, " sometimes from their original works but also from later
writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's
lost commentary on Aristotle's "Physics" and on "Porphyry." 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 groundbreaking "Ancient Commentators on
Aristotle" series, translates into English for the first time
Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction,
extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.
Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the
theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in
its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution.
His commentary is translated here without the previously translated
excursus, the "Corollary""on Void, "also available in this series.
Philoponus rejects Aristotle's attack on the very idea of void and
of the possibility of motion in it, even though he thinks that void
never occurs in fact. Philoponus' argument was later to be praised
by Galileo.This volume contains the first English translation of
Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction,
extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.
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 from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno,
sometimes from their original works but also from later writers
from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost
commentary on Aristotle's Physics and on Porphyry. 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 groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on
Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time
Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction,
extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.
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