Brill’s companion to the reception of Aristotle in antiquity

528 Pages·2016·2.02 MB·English

by  Andrea (ed.)

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
Brill’s Companions to
Classical Reception
Series Editor
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
VOLUME 7
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Brill’s Companion to the
Reception of Aristotle
in Antiquity
Edited by
Andrea Falcon
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Names: Falcon, Andrea.
Title: Brill’s companion to the reception of Aristotle in antiquity / edited by Andrea Falcon.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Andrea Falcon
PART 1
The Hellenistic Reception of Aristotle
1 Aristotle and the Hellenistic Peripatos: From Theophrastus
to Critolaus 13
David Lefebvre
2 Aristotle and the Garden 35
Francesco Verde
3 Aristotle and the Stoa 56
Thomas Bénatouïl
PART 2
The Post-Hellenistic Engagement with Aristotle
The Peripatetic Tradition
4 Andronicus of Rhodes and the Construction of the Aristotelian
Corpus 81
Myrto Hatzimichali
5 Aristotelianism in the First Century BC 101
Andrea Falcon
6 Peripatetic Ethics in the First Century BC: The Summary
of Didymus 120
Georgia Tsouni
vi contents
7 Aristotelianism in the Second Century AD: Before Alexander of
Aphrodisias 138
Inna Kupreeva
8 Alexander of Aphrodisias 160
Cristina Cerami
Beyond the Peripatetic Tradition
9 The Reception of Aristotle in Antiochus and Cicero 183
John Dillon
10 The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Ps-Pythagorean Treatises 202
Angela Ulacco
11 The Reception of Aristotle in Middle Platonism: From Eudorus of
Alexandria to Ammonius Saccas 218
Alexandra Michalewski
12 Galen’s Reception of Aristotle 238
R. J. Hankinson
13 Plotinus’ Reception of Aristotle 258
Sara Magrin
14 The Ancient Biographical Tradition on Aristotle 277
Tiziano Dorandi
15 Aristotle in the Aëtian Placita 299
Jaap Mansfeld
PART 3
Aristotle in Late Antiquity
16 Porphyry and the Aristotelian Tradition 321
Riccardo Chiaradonna
17 An Intellective Perspective on Aristotle: Iamblichus the Divine 341
Jan Opsomer
contents vii
18 Themistius 358
Arnaud Zucker
19 Syrianus and Proclus on Aristotle 374
Pieter d’Hoine
20 Ammonius and the Alexandrian School 394
Michael Griffin
21 Simplicius and Philoponus on the Authority of Aristotle 419
Pantelis Golitsis
22 Aristoteles Latinus: The Reception of Aristotle in the Latin
World 439
Christophe Erismann
23 Early Christian Philosophers on Aristotle 460
George Karamanolis
Index of Ancient Names 481
Index of Passages 484

Acknowledgements
The project of assembling a Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in
Antiquity started in the Fall of 2012 when Professor Kyriakos Demetriou in his
capacity as overseeing editor of the series “Brill’s Companions to Classical
Reception” asked whether I would be interested in editing a volume on
the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in antiquity. My first thanks go to him.
Without his initial input and encouragement, I would not have undertaken
this project.
Very early on, I decided that I wanted to provide an accessible and yet highly
professional and systematic account of the fortunes of Aristotle’s philosophy
in antiquity. Given the complexity of the task, I invited twenty-two scholars
with different skills and research interests to focus on various aspects of the
reception of Aristotle’s thought. My second thanks go to these scholars, who
have worked on a tight schedule and within narrow constraints with respect to
both topic and length.
Finally, special thanks go to Edwin Zoltan (Zoli) Filotas who has translated
two chapters from the French (Chapters 1 and 14) and revised the English of
most of the non-native English speakers involved in the project. Without his
help, I could not have achieved the goal of producing this volume.
The volume aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the reception of
Aristotle in antiquity. I am confident that the contributors have achieved
that goal, even though I am happy to acknowledge that the volume has not
exhausted the topic of the reception of Aristotle in antiquity. I do not see this
as a limitation. In my view, the value of any companion, including this one,
lies in its capacity not only to collect and synthetize existing scholarship but
also to open new avenues of research and to show what remains to be done in
a field of study. We have tried to do all these things. The progress of research
in the field of the post-Hellenistic reception of Aristotle has been enormous.
The same can be said for the reception of Aristotle in late antiquity. In both
cases, our primary goal has been to provide up-to-date entries. By contrast,
in the case of the Hellenistic reception of Aristotle, we felt it was necessary to
approach the extant evidence with a fresh eye. Last but not least, in the case of
the reception of Aristotle among Christian authors, it was important to show
that there is an entire body of texts that is still largely unexplored.
Notes on Contributors
Thomas Bénatouïl
is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Université Lille 3 and a member of UMR
8163 Savoirs Textes Langage. He has published Le Scepticisme (1997), Faire
usage: la pratique du stoïcisme (2006), Musonius, Épictète, Marc-Aurèle (2009),
and several papers on Stoic philosophy, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Lyceum.
He has co-edited Plato, Aristotle, or Both? Dialogues between Platonism and
Aristotelianism in Antiquity (2011) and Theoria, Praxis and the Contemplative
Life after Plato and Aristotle (2012).
Cristina Cerami
is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, Paris (UMR 7219: SPHERE/CHSPAM).
She works on Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition in the Greek and Arabic
worlds, with a special concentration on Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes.
She is the author of Génération et substance: Aristote et Averroès entre physique
et métaphysique (2015).
Riccardo Chiaradonna
is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Roma Tre University. His publi-
cations include Sostanza, movimento, analogia. Plotino critico di Aristotele
(2002) and Plotino (2009). He has co-edited Physics and Philosophy of Nature in
Greek Neoplatonism (2009) and Universals in Ancient Philosophy (2013). He is
the author of numerous articles on the philosophy of late antiquity, with a con-
centration on the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions.
Pieter d’Hoine
is Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Intellectual History at the
Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven (Belgium). He has co-edited, under
the supervision of Carlos Steel, Proclus’ commentary on the Parmenides for the
Oxford Classical Texts and has published on various aspects of later Neoplatonic
metaphysics. He is currently writing a monograph on the reception of Plato’s
theory of Forms in later Neoplatonism and is co-editing, with Marije Martijn, a
comprehensive volume on Proclus for Oxford University Press.
John Dillon
is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the
founder and Director of the Plato Centre at Trinity College, Dublin. His chief
interest is the philosophy of Plato and the tradition stemming from it. His