Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Text of Aristotle's Metaphysics

Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Text of Aristotle's Metaphysics

ByMirjam Kotwick

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Alexander of Aphrodisias’s commentary (about AD 200) is the earliest extant commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the most important indirect witness to the Metaphysics text. In this study, Mirjam Kotwick demonstrates how to reconstruct from Alexander’s commentary the Metaphysics text Alexander used and how to make use of this ancient version of the Metaphysics for improving the text of our direct manuscript tradition. Moreover, Kotwick investigates how Alexander’s commentary may have influenced the transmission of the Metaphysics at various stages. Kotwick’s study is the first book-length examination of a commentary as a witness to an ancient philosophical text. This blend of textual criticism and philosophical analysis both expands on existing methodologies in classical scholarship and develops new ones.

Details

Publication Date
Mar 3, 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781939926067
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Mirjam Kotwick

Specifications

Pages
356
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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