Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Hellenistic Reception of Aristotle -- Chapter 1 Aristotle and the Hellenistic Peripatos: From Theophrastus to Critolaus -- Chapter 2 Aristotle and the Garden -- Chapter 3 Aristotle and the Stoa -- Part 2 The Post-Hellenistic Engagement with Aristotle -- The Peripatetic Tradition -- Chapter 4 Andronicus of Rhodes and the Construction of the Aristotelian Corpus -- Chapter 5 Aristotelianism in the First Century BC -- Chapter 6 Peripatetic Ethics in the First Century BC: The Summary of Didymus -- Chapter 7 Aristotelianism in the Second Century AD: Before Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Chapter 8 Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Beyond the Peripatetic Tradition -- Chapter 9 The Reception of Aristotle in Antiochus and Cicero -- Chapter 10 The Appropriation of Aristotle in the Ps-Pythagorean Treatises -- Chapter 11 The Reception of Aristotle in Middle Platonism: From Eudorus of Alexandria to Ammonius Saccas -- Chapter 12 Galen's Reception of Aristotle -- Chapter 13 Plotinus' Reception of Aristotle -- Chapter 14 The Ancient Biographical Tradition on Aristotle -- Chapter 15 Aristotle in the Aëtian Placita -- Part 3 Aristotle in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 16 Porphyry and the Aristotelian Tradition -- Chapter 17 An Intellective Perspective on Aristotle: Iamblichus the Divine -- Chapter 18 Themistius -- Chapter 19 Syrianus and Proclus on Aristotle -- Chapter 20 Ammonius and the Alexandrian School -- Chapter 21 Simplicius and Philoponus on the Authority of Aristotle -- Chapter 22 Aristoteles Latinus: The Reception of Aristotle in the Latin World -- Chapter 23 Early Christian Philosophers on Aristotle -- Index of Ancient Names -- Index of Passages.

To date, no comprehensive account has been published to explain the complex phenomenon of the reception of Aristotle's philosophy in Antiquity. This Companion fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject from Hellenistic times to the sixth century AD.

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