Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Gertz, Sebastian

Bloomsbury Academic（2018/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350051744
• DDC分類 180

Full Description

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.

Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to the philosophy curriculum, which made it far more accessible, and encouraged its spread from Greek to other cultures. This volume's three introductory texts include one by his student Olympiodorus and one each by Olympiodorus' students Elias and David.

Elias' Introductions to Philosophy starts with six definitions of Philosophy, to which David adds replies to the sceptical question whether there is such a thing as Philosophy. Olympiodorus' text translated here is an Introduction to Logic, which is just one of the three introductions he wrote himself.

Contents

Conventions
Introduction

Elias, Introduction to Philosophy

Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
Appendix: The Definitions of Philosophy according to Elias, Prol. 8,20-7
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index

David, Introduction to Philosophy

Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index

Olympiodorus, Introduction to Logic

Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index

Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index