ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ARISTOTLE Volume 1 ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 1 ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 1 Some novel interpretations of the man and his life ANTON-HERMANN CHROUST First published in 1973 This edition first published in 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1973 Anton-Hermann Chroust All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-138-92762-9 (Set) ISBN: 978-1-315-67490-2 (Set) (ebk) ISBN: 978-1-138-93706-2 (Volume 1) (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-67494-0 (Volume 1) (ebk) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. ARISTOTLE New light on his life and on some of his lost works Volume I Some novel interpretations of the man and his life Anton-Hermann Chroust First published in 1973 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, London EC4V 5EL Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Copyright Anton-Hermann Chroust 1973 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism ISBN 0 7100 7582 0 To the Memory of Roscoe Pound Teacher, Friend, Scholar Contents Preface Volume I Some novel interpretations of the man and his life Abbreviations Introduction I A Brief Account of the (Lost) Vita Aristotelis of Hermippus and of the (Lost) Vita Aristotelis of Ptolemy (-el-Garib) II The Vita Aristotelis of Dionysius of Halicarnassus III An Analysis of the Vita Aristotelis of Diogenes Laertius (DL V. 1–16) IV A Summary of the Syriac and Arabic Vitae Aristotelis V The Genealogy and Family of Aristotle VI Aristotle and Callisthenes of Olynthus VII Aristotle Enters the Academy VIII Aristotle’s Earliest ‘Course of Lectures on Rhetoric’ IX Aristotle Leaves the Academy X Was Aristotle Actually the Chief Preceptor of Alexander the Great? XI Aristotle’s Return to Athens in the Year 335-34 B.C . XII Aristotle’s Flight from Athens in the Year 323 B.C . XIII Aristotle, Athens and the Foreign Policy of Macedonia XIV The Myth of Aristotle’s Suicide XV Aristotle’s Last Will and Testament XVI Aristotle’s Religious Convictions XVII Aristotle’s ‘Self-Portrayal’ Conclusion Notes Index of Ancient Authors and Sources Index of Modern Authors Volume II Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works Abbreviations Introduction I The Probable Dates of Some of Aristotle’s Lost Works II A Note on Some of the Minor Lost Works of Aristotle III Aristotle’s First Literary Effort: The Gryllus—A Work on the Nature of Rhetoric IV Eudemus or On the Soul: An Aristotelian Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul V The Psychology in Aristotle’s Eudemus or On the Soul VI Aristotle’s On Justice VII A Brief Account of the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Protrepticus VIII An Emendation to Fragment 13 (Walzer, Ross) of Aristotle’s Protrepticus IX What Prompted Aristotle to Address the Protrepticus to Themison of Cyprus? X The Term ‘Philosopher’ and the Panegyric Analogy in Aristotle’s Protrepticus XI Aristotle’s Politicus XII The Probable Date of Aristotle’s On Philosophy XIII A Cosmological (Teleological) Proof for the Existence of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy XIV The Concept of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy (Cicero, De Natura Deorum I. 13. 33) XV The Doctrine of the Soul in Aristotle’s On Philosophy XVI Aristotle’s On Philosophy and the ‘Philosophies of the East’ XVII Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s ‘Philosopher King’: Some Comments to Aristotle’s On Kingship Conclusion Postscript Werner Jaeger and the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Lost Works Notes Index of Ancient Authors Index of Modern Authors
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