Bücher von Alexander Aphrodisiensis

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A collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise "On the Soul" by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (c 200 AD). It includes discussion of a range of topics, among them the nature of soul and intellect, theories of how seeing takes place, issues in ethics, and the nature of fate.

Between 1883 and 1909 a team of scholars led by Hermann Diels produced 15,000 pages of edited text of commentaries on Aristotle in Greek from the 2nd to the 13th Century AD. This volume is one of three supplements to the collection.

Commentaries on Aristotle's writings have been produced since the 2nd century AD. This edition contains Greek commentaries on his work from the 3rd to the 8th centuries AD by, among others, Alexander of Aphrodiensias, Themistios, Joh. Philoponus, Simplicius in Greek.