Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of...

The Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristo...

Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics , lived in the sixth ...

Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There a...

Written to accompany the Birks and McLeod translation of 'Justinian's Institutes', this book take...

This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Pla...

In the first edition of 'Women in Greek Myth', published in 1986, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly ...

Book 3 of Aristotle's Physics primarily concerns two important concepts for his theory of nature:...

Porphyry (AD 232 3 - C.305) is of crucial importance for the history of Aristotelian studies. Bor...

How do ancient historians 'do' ancient history? This book, aimed at undergraduate and postgraduat...

These were the Greeks presents an absorbing and readable introduction to Greek society. The twent...

The earlier part of the commentary by 'Philoponus' on Aristotle's On the Soul is translated by Wi...

Simplicius and Priscian were two of the seven Neoplatonists who left Athens when the Christian Em...

This is one of the most interesting of all post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical texts, written a...

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of t...

'Animals can't construct sentences. Therefore we can eat them.' That was the view the Stoics even...

Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, r...

Covering the period from AD14 to 284, this comprehensive book reviews the social and economic his...

Henri Pirennewas a Belgian historian whose career was devoted to promoting the thesis since named...

Dexippus, a pupil or follower of lamblichus, preserves a crucial moment in the Neoplatonist inter...

In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-d...

These chapters of Aristotle's treatise are about physical interactions. In his innovative comment...

Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek c...

Aristotle devotes books 8-9 of the Nicomachean Ethics to friendship, distinguishing three kinds: ...

Philoponus

In Metaphysics 4 Aristotle discusses the nature of metaphysics, the basic laws of logic, the fals...

The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in thre...

'[Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a cla...

Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, 'Bucolic Ecology' illustrates how these p...

'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the int...

In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perc...

Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There a...

Providing a modern introduction to French cinema, this book describes the French passion for hist...

The fascination of Plato's dialogues rests not only on the range of arguments and opinions expres...

There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once...

Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek c...

Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as beingthe...

Until the launch of this series in 1985, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on ...

Themistius ran his philosophical school in Constantinople in the middle of the fourth century A.D...

Gogol's most famous short story, first published in 1842, has attracted unrivalled attention, bot...

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Ar...

The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and des...

In this, one of the most original ancient texts on sense perception, Philoponus, the sixth centur...

Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. T...

Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussio...

Ammonius, who taught most of the leading sixth-century Neoplatonists, introduced the methods of h...

This book is about determinisism. It contains the two most important commentaries on the determin...

Porphyry's On Abstinence from Killing Animals is one of the most interesting books from Greek ant...