Themistius : on Aristotle physics 5-8

✍ Scribed by Themistius & Robert B. Todd

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking selectiv. Read more...

Abstract:

Discusses the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. This book covers the central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Contents
Preface
Conventions
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Book 5
Book 6 (chs 1-6
8-10)
Book 7 (chs 2-5)
Book 8
Notes
Bibliography and Abbreviations
English-Greek Glossary
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
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M
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O
P
Q
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V
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Y
Greek-English Index
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B
D
E
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O
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X
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Index of Passages Cited
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C
D
E
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O
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Subject Index
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
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K
L
M
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P
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Z.

✦ Subjects

Aristotle. -- Physics. Space and time -- Early works to 1800. Physics -- Early works to 1800. Physics (Aristotle) Physics. Space and time. Aristotle. Physics. Book 5-8.