Alexandri Aphrodisiensis de anima libri mantissa Mantissa

by Sharples, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9783110196443
• ISBN10: 3110196441
• eBook ISBN(s): 9783110978995
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: De Gruyter
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Summary

R. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The Mantissa is 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). The collection 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.

Table of Contents

The Mantissa	p. 1
Numbering of sections and within sections	p. 5
The Text: General Observations	p. 5
The Manuscripts	p. 9
Relations between the Manuscripts	p. 15
The Renaissance Correctors of a	p. 23
This Edition	p. 27
Sigla	p. 31
Alexander, De anima libri mantissa	p. 35
Commentary	p. 143
Abbreviations and Bibliography	p. 237
Index of Passages Cited	p. 257
General Index	p. 265
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