This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'.
| ISBN: | 9780521711852 |
| Publication date: | 14th October 2010 |
| Author: | R. W. (Professor, University College London) Sharples |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 330 pages |
| Genres: |
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy |