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This is a translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotles' "Categories". Falling into two parts, it examines first of all the six categories dealt with in chapter 9 of "Categories"; then it examines the so-called "Postpraedicamenta" consisting of chapters 10-15.

The "Enchiridion" or "Handbook" of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. This is the first volume of a translation of Simplicius' commentary on Epictetus' "Handbook".

In this, the first half of Philoponus' analysis of book one of "Aristotle's Physics", the principal themes are metaphysical. Philoponus explains the apparent conflict between the 'didactic method' and the strict demonstrative method described in the "Analytics".

Philoponus is engaged in an exegesis of Plato's Timaeus which aims to settle familiar interpretive problems, notably how we should understand the pre-cosmic state of disorderly motion, and the statement that the visible cosmos is an image of the paradigm. His exegetical concerns culminate with a discussion of Plato's attitude to poetry and myth.

Philoponus was a brilliant Christian philosopher who turned the ideas of the pagans of the Neoplatonist school against them. Here, he attacks the most devout pagan philosopher, Proclus, defending the Christian view that the universe had a beginning against Proclus' arguments to the contrary.

In 'On The Soul' 2.1-6, Aristotle gives a very different account of the soul from Plato's by tying the soul to the body. He defines soul and life by reference to the capacities for using food to maintain structure and reproduce, for perceiving and desiring. Philoponus gives a 'cognitive' view.

The "Supplement" transmitted as the second book of "On the Soul" by Alexander of Aphrodisias is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology;questions in ethics;and issues relating to responsibility, chance and fate.

The "Supplement" transmitted as the second book of "On the Soul" by Alexander of Aphrodisias is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology; questions in ethics; and issues relating to responsibility, chance and fate.

Rejects accounts of soul which define it as moving, as cognitive, or in physical terms. Chapter 3 considers Aristotle's attack on the idea that the soul is in motion. What we would call the mind-body relation is the subject of Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, the author endorses Aristotle's rejection of the idea that the soul is particles.

In his commentary on the final chapter translated in this volume, the author provides an insightful account of Aristotle's criticism of Plato's method of division. His discussion helps readers follow Aristotle's difficult presentation.

Explains some of Aristotle's more opaque assertions and discusses post-Aristotelian ideas in semantics and the philosophy of language. It provides an insight into the way in which these disciplines developed in the Hellenistic era. He also shows a more sophisticated understanding of these fields than Aristotle himself.

Explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true.

Contains Aristotle's Philosophy of Science.

Presents Simplicius' selection of Presocratic texts. This book criticizes the lost commentary of the leading Aristotelian commentator, Alexander.

Examines Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's theory of elemental chemistry in the "Timaeus". This book identifies fifteen objections by Aristotle to Plato's views on weight in the four elements.

The first translation into English of this part of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics, which deals with the treatment of matter.

This is Part I of the first English translation of the philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias' treatise On the Soul, the latest volume in this highly regarded series, The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle.

This translation into English of part of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Philoponus on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics deals with the important topic of explanation though scientific demonstration.

Aspasius' commentary on the "Nicomachean Ethics"is one of the oldest surviving Greek commentary on any of Aristotle's works, dating to the middle of the second century AD. It offers insight into the thinking and pedagogical methods of the Peripatetic school in the early Roman Empire. This work is a translation of Aspasius' work.

Syrianus attacked Aristotle in his commentary on Books 13 and 14 of the "Metaphysics". This is because in "Metaphysics 13-14", Aristotle himself was being polemical towards Platonism. In reply, Syrianus gives an account of mathematical number and of geometrical entities, and of how all of these are processed in the mind.

15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constitute one of the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings. This work looks at Proclus' reply, which is one of the remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. This work is an English translation that brings the arguments he formulates.