Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. — 316 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina 3). In Greek Late Antiquity philosophy defined itself above all through the interpretation of authoritative texts such as Plato’s dialogues or the treatises of Aristotle. This work looks at the last Late Antique commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics, the pagan Simplicius and the...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020. — 534 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 1). This study contains the first collection of preserved fragments, in Greek and Arabic, of the peripatetic philosopher Boethus of Sidon (first century BC) along with their French translation and an exhaustive commentary. This book is an indispensable work for...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 114 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 10). This book presents newly discovered fragments from the lost ancient commentaries by Aspasios, Herminos, Alexander and Syrianos on Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations. After presenting the fragments, which were preserved by the humanist and philosopher...
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 246 p. — (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica 9). Neoplatonists from Plotinus onward incorporate Aristotle’s logic and ontology into their philosophies: this process is of both intrinsic and historical interest and paves the way for subsequent philosophical debates in the Middle Ages and beyond. The ten...
Janko Richard (ed.). — Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987. — xxvi + 235 p. — (Hackett Classics). Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both...
Brill, 1998. — vi, 350 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 184). The bibliography of Aristotle's Poetics by Cooper and Gudeman, most welcome in 1928, has now become antiquated, even for the period it covers. The present one registers all editions, translations, commentaries and studies bearing on the Poetics or the major concepts that have been associated with it, correctly or...
М.: Академический Проект, 2020. — 732 с. — (Философские технологии: история философии). — ISBN 978 5 8291 3217 0. Книга Т. В. Васильевой состоит из серии очерков, в которых прослеживается развитие античной философии от первых опытов рефлексии над традиционными представлениями мифологии, права, языка к обретению собственного предмета и профессионального арсенала методов,...
Brill, 2025. — 244 p. — (Brill's Plato Studies Series 20). Giving souls strong individuality is one of Plato's most influential but also most controversial innovations. This book addresses such souls' agency, which is a prerequisite of their many functions not only in human life but in the universe at large. Its conclusion is that the agency proper to the soul stands apart from...
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 337 p. — (Oxford Aristotle Studies). Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought argues that Aristote's De anima III 4-8 contains a unitary and coherent account of the essence of the human capacity for thought, called nous. It is argued that nous is a part of the cognitive soul aimed at grasping essences, unassimilable to other parts of the human...
Mohr Siebeck, 2025. — VII, 189 S. — (Bedrohte Ordnungen 20). Schriften gegen die Christen haben insbesondere platonische Autoren geschrieben. Dies ordnet sich ein in eine gegenseitige Bezugnahme aufeinander und die damit verbundene Bekampfung - ein Kampf um Deutungshoheit. Da einige Werke des Porphyrios, der im Zentrum des vorliegenden Bandes steht, nur in den Werken seiner...
Brill, 1977. — viii, 65 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 32). In Plato's dialogues, the Timaeus and Critias, we have, if we disregard for the moment their rather puzzling disjunction, a continuous and far from simple dramatic composition. At the beginning of the Timaeus we learn that on the preceding day Socrates has described for four listeners, Timaeus, Critias, Hermocrates, and an...
Brill, 1993. — viii, 118 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 57). Plotinus' fiercely polemical treatise Against the Gnostics has proved peculiarly resistant to modern methods of criticism. So much so, that historians of philosophy frequently end up attributing to Plotinus himself the very beliefs which Plotinus attempts to demolish in his criticism of the Gnostics. Denis O'Brien attempts...
Brill, 1952. — 182 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 4). Les sophistes et les rheteurs de l'antiquite ant ete juges dans les temps modernes avec grande severite. Consequemment, le terme ,,sophiste" a pris chez nous un sens fkheux qu'il n'a eu chez les anciens que dans certains milieux...Les mechants", ecrivait Victor Hugo...malmenent la conscience avec autorite. Il y a une gymnastique...
Bonn: Peter Hanstein Verlag, 1969. — 151 p. — (Theophaneia: Beiträge zur Religions- und Kirchengeschichte des Altertums 21). Aeneas von Gaza ist neben Prokop von Gaza, dessen Schüler Choricius und Zacharias Scholasticus, dem späteren Bischof von Mytilene, eine der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der gazäischen Schule, die um die Wende vom 5. zum 6. Jahrhundert, während die...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022. — 427 p. — (International Socrates Studies 2). Wie kann man sich dem sokratischen Rätsel stellen? Dieses Buch bietet einige Anhaltspunkte, um das Problem von Sokrates und den sokratischen Philosophien aus verschiedenen Perspektiven anzugehen. Behandelt werden Sokrates und das sokratische Umfeld; das Problem des...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022. — 295 p. — (Collegium Politicum 9). The relationship between religion, social structures and political institutions has always played a fundamental role in human societies. This collection of essays aims to explore possible ways in which philosophical conceptualizations of god, the gods, and the divine in the...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. — 508 p. — (Academia Philosophical Studies 74). Die vorliegende Sammlung von Aufsatzen einiger der weltbesten Spezialisten der antiken griechischen Philosophie konzentriert sich auf die philosophischen Texte, die wahrend der hellenistischen und kaiserlichen Zeit Pythagoras und den Pythagoreern zugeschrieben wurden....
Pulpito Massimo, Ranzato Sofia (eds.). — Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018. — 254 p. — (Supplementa Eleatica 6). Per lungo tempo Parmenide è stato ritenuto il primo vero metafisico della storia, teorico di un essere disincarnato e inaccessibile alla conoscenza scientifica del mondo. Giovanni Cerri, nelle sue Lezioni Eleatiche, ritorna sulla sua nota...
Pulpito Massimo, Berruecos Frank Bernardo (eds.). — Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2023. — 239 p. — (Supplementa Eleatica 9). Richard McKirahan systematically examines the Aristotelian discussion of the thought of Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus, shedding light on the more obscure and complex passages. He also complements his study by proposing a novel...
Pulpito Massimo (ed.). — Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022. — 239 p. — (Supplementa Eleatica 2). This set of previously published essays-several of them now expanded and revised-offers a sustained analysis of conceptual connections between (i) the metaphysics and epistemology of Parmenides and (ii) corresponding themes in the philosophies of other...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag; Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019. — 269 p. — (Supplementa Eleatica 1). Seit funfzig Jahren forscht Nestor Cordero hauptsachlich zu Parmenides von Elea. Neben einigen Monografien hat Cordero dem Eleat zahlreiche Veroffentlichungen gewidmet, von denen einige nicht mehr ohne weiteres erhaltlich sind. Dieser Band enthalt zwanzig Schriften von Cordero in...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 536 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces,...
University of Toronto Press, 1991. — 160 p. — (Phoenix Presocractic Series 1; Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 18). David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the...
Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2007. — 304 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volume 44; The Phoenix Presocratics 6). Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted...
2. Auflage. — Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2005. — 214 p. — (International pre-Platonic studies 4). This new printing offers the opportunity to correct typographical errors and make some few additions to the first edition. It has not been the occasion for much rethinking of Anaxagoras on my part; only for desultory and incomplete notice of places where later writers may be...
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction, 2012. — 606 p. — (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities 18). This installment of the distinguished RUSCH series focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers of the fourth and third centuries BCE: namely, Chamaeleon and Praxiphanes, both of whom were associated with Theophrastus, Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic...
Routledge, 2004. — 358 p. Aristotles' 'Metaphysics' is one of the most important texts in Ancient Philosophy. This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the student through the main arguments found in the text. The book introduces and assesses Aristotle's life and the background to the Metaphysics, the ideas and text of the Metaphysics and Aristotle's...
Brill, 2000. — xxxviii, 194 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 203). Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the ancient science which combined and brought to completion the study of philosophy and science. This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and...
Boter Gerard, van Ophuijsen Jan (eds.). — Brill, 2005. — x, 206 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 267). This volume is intended to accompany the new Oxford edition of Plato's Republic, published in 2003. It is based on a series of ten articles in Mnemosyne, dating from 1988 to 2003. It contains discussions of textual problems of various kinds. Much attention is paid to Plato's use...
Brill, 2025. — x, 226 p. — (Brill's Plato Studies 19). Les articles de ce recueil étudient différentes questions relatives à la relation entre les affections, les lois et la rationalité dans les Lois de Platon, notamment la fonction et le contenu des préludes, l’ignorance et la colère dans la pénologie, la religion et l’impiété, l’éducation et le plaisir. The chapters of this...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 420 p. This volume provides a rich collection of original essays on Aristotle's metaphysics written by sixteen prominent scholars in the field. Honouring the seminal influence of David Charles to philosophical scholarship, it offers fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's thinking in metaphysics and related areas such as philosophy...
Brill, 1998. — xx, 342 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 181). This book addresses the problems surrounding Cicero's Academici Libri, including why the work exists in two different editions, why and when the work became fragmentary, and how it managed to survive. It achieves this by tracing the history and influence of the work from Antiquity to the present day. The main part of the...
Brill, 1993. — xvi, 676 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 125). This book has been written from the conviction that general statements about the philosophical position taken by Theophrastus in this small but extremely difficult treatise, can only be made on the basis of a detailed interpretation of each and every sentence of the text. This resulted in a full commentary, which evades...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — xlvi, 616 p. This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010. — 326 p. — (The Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements 3). Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage presents in two volumes ground-breaking results in the history of interpretation of Plato s Parmenides, the culmination of six years of international collaboration by the SBL Annual Meeting seminar, Rethinking Plato s Parmenides...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010. — 352 p. — (The Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements 2). Plato s Parmenides and Its Heritage presents in two volumes ground-breaking results in the history of interpretation of Plato s Parmenides, the culmination of six years of international collaboration by the SBL Annual Meeting seminar, Rethinking Plato s Parmenides...
Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2000. — 410 p. — (International Plato Studies 13). This volume contains a selection of papers read at the Fifth Symposium Platonicum, Toronto. It contains an Index Locorum, a Subject Index and a consolidated Bibliography. The three dialogues discussed at the Symposium drew papers from scholars all over the world, including some who have produced...
Baden-Baden: Academia, 2019. — 777 p. — (International Plato Studies 39). Homer und Sophokles, Platon und Aristoteles: vier große Autoren, die die Essenz der griechischen Kultur mit besonderer Klarheit zum Vorschein kommen lassen, stehen im Fokus der gesammelten Aufsätze des Tübinger Gräzisten Thomas Alexander Szlezák. Die Zugangsart zu den dichterischen wie zu den...
Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2010. — 444 p. — (International Plato Studies 26). The present volume contains a selection of the papers delivered at the VIII Symposium Platonicum, on the topic of Plato’s Philebus, which was held in Dublin from July 23 – 28, 2007, under the auspices of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, based in Trinity College, Dublin, but...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2021. — 385 p. — (International Plato Studies 40). Few other semantic fields pervade Plato’s oeuvre, from the earliest to the latest works, in such a definitive and ambivalent way as that of mimesis. From the philosophy of language to aesthetics and moral psychology, from metaphysics to cosmology and theology: in a strikingly large array of...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2018. — 407 p. — (International Plato Studies 38). The paper deals with the "deuteros plous", literally ‘the second voyage’, proverbially ‘the next best way’, discussed in Plato’s "Phaedo", the key passage being Phd. 99e4–100a3. The second voyage refers to what Plato’s Socrates calls his “flight into the logoi”. Elaborating on the subject, the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 298 p. — (Plato Dialogue Project). The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology, knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology. The Philebushad a far greater influence on Aristotle's ethics than the...
Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022. — 568 p. — (International Plato Studies 41). Dieser Band versammelt eine Auswahl von Vorträgen, die auf dem Platonicum XII Symposium über Platons Parmenides gehalten wurden, vom 15. bis 19. Juli 2019 in Paris. Der Band beinhaltet fünfzig Beiträge, die von der Lebendigkeit und Vielfalt der platonischen Studien zu diesem schwierigen Dialog...
Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2006. — 232 p. New Essays on Plato assembles nine original papers on the language and thought of the Athenian philosopher. The collection encompasses issues from the Apology to the Laws and includes discussions of topics in ethics, political theory, psychology, epistemology, ontology, physics and metaphysics, and ancient literary...
Georg Olms Verlag, 1981. — 616 p. — (Philological Monographs of American Philological Association 8). Reprint. Originally published: Haverford, PA: Haverford College, 1938. (Philological monographs 8).
Gunter Narr Verlag, 2010. — 228 p. — (Leipziger Studien zur Klassischen Philologie 7). Der skythische Nomade Anacharsis wird zum ersten Mal bei Herodot (5. Jh. v. Chr.) erwähnt. Er ist der Fremde, der nach Griechenland kommt, sowohl um zu lernen als auch da selbst ein Weiser um anderen ein Lehrer zu sein. Er äußert sich durch knappe, oft witzig-ironische Sprüche, die von der...
Brill, 2005. — 520 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 97; Theophrastus of Eresus 8). This volume is a commentary on the rhetorical and poetic texts collected in the second volume of Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought, and Influence. The commentary begins with a discussion of the ancient and medieval sources from which the texts are drawn. Next comes...
Brill, 1998. — xviii, 302 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 79; Theophrastus of Eresus 3.1). This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh, R.W. Sharples and D. Gutas . Together with volumes comprising the texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide a new generation of classicists with an...
Brill, 1994. — xvi, 273 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 64; Theophrastus of Eresus 5). This is the first to appear of the projected volumes of commentary to accompany the texts and translations on Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others ("FHSG" (Philosophia Antiqua 54); Leiden, Brill, 1992). It covers the...
Brill, 1999. — xviii, 254 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 81; Theophrastus of Eresus 4). This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh, R.W. Sharples and D. Gutas . Together with volumes comprising the texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide a new generation of classicists with an...