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This edition dates from 1595. The page depicts Aristotle himself</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Commentaries on Aristotle</b> refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Aristotelicum" class="mw-redirect" title="Corpus Aristotelicum">works of Aristotle</a>. The pupils of <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> were the first to comment on his writings, a tradition which was continued by the <a href="/wiki/Peripatetic_school" title="Peripatetic school">Peripatetic school</a> throughout the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic period</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Roman_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman era">Roman era</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Neoplatonists" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoplatonists">Neoplatonists</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Later_Roman_Empire" title="Later Roman Empire">Late Roman Empire</a> wrote many commentaries on Aristotle, attempting to incorporate him into their philosophy. Although Ancient Greek commentaries are considered the most useful, commentaries continued to be written by the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> scholars of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> and by the many <a href="/wiki/Islamic_philosophy" title="Islamic philosophy">Islamic philosophers</a> and Western <a href="/wiki/Scholasticism" title="Scholasticism">scholastics</a> who had inherited his texts. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greek_commentators">Greek commentators</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Greek commentators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first pupils of Aristotle commentated on his writings, but often with a view to expand his work. Thus <a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a> invented five moods of <a href="/wiki/Syllogism" title="Syllogism">syllogism</a> in the first figure, in addition to the four invented by Aristotle, and stated with additional accuracy the rules of <a href="/wiki/Hypothetical_syllogism" title="Hypothetical syllogism">hypothetical syllogisms</a>. He also often differed with his master,<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including in collecting much information concerning animals and natural events, which Aristotle had omitted. </p><p>During the early <a href="/wiki/Roman_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman empire">Roman empire</a> we find few celebrated names among the <a href="/wiki/Peripatetic_school" title="Peripatetic school">Peripatetic</a> philosophers. <a href="/wiki/Nicolaus_of_Damascus" title="Nicolaus of Damascus">Nicolaus of Damascus</a> wrote several treatises on the philosophy of Aristotle; and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Aegae" title="Alexander of Aegae">Alexander of Aegae</a> also wrote commentaries on Aristotle.<sup id="cite_ref-whewell_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whewell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest commentaries which survive, are those written in the 2nd century by <a href="/wiki/Adrastus_of_Aphrodisias" title="Adrastus of Aphrodisias">Adrastus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aspasius" title="Aspasius">Aspasius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-routledge_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-routledge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Aphrodisias" title="Alexander of Aphrodisias">Alexander of Aphrodisias</a> (c. 200) was regarded by subsequent <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelians</a> among the Greeks, Latins, and Muslims, as the best interpreter of Aristotle. On account of the number and value of his commentaries, he was called, by way of distinction, "The Commentator". Several of his works are still extant, among which is a treatise <i>On Fate</i>, wherein he supports the doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Divine_providence" title="Divine providence">divine providence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-whewell_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whewell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of the <a href="/wiki/Neoplatonists" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoplatonists">Neoplatonists</a> undertook to explain and illustrate the writings of Aristotle, particularly on the subject of <a href="/wiki/Dialectics" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialectics">dialectics</a>, which <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> had left imperfect.<sup id="cite_ref-whewell_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whewell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher)" title="Porphyry (philosopher)">Porphyry</a> (3rd century) wrote a book on the <i><a href="/wiki/Categories_(Aristotle)" title="Categories (Aristotle)">Categories</a></i>, which was found to be so suitable a complement to the <i>Categories</i> of Aristotle, that it was usually prefixed to that treatise.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Porphyry sought to show that Plato and Aristotle were in harmony with each other, especially in regards to the compatibility of Aristotle's Categories with Plato's <a href="/wiki/Theory_of_Forms" class="mw-redirect" title="Theory of Forms">Theory of Forms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-routledge_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-routledge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Porphyry's pupil <a href="/wiki/Iamblichus" title="Iamblichus">Iamblichus</a> continued this process of harmonising Plato and Aristotle, and <a href="/wiki/Dexippus_(philosopher)" title="Dexippus (philosopher)">Dexippus</a>, a disciple of <a href="/wiki/Iamblichus" title="Iamblichus">Iamblichus</a>, wrote a <i>Reply to the Objections of Plotinus against Aristotle's Categories</i>, which is still extant. <a href="/wiki/Themistius" title="Themistius">Themistius</a> (4th century), who taught at <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> with great success, paraphrased several of the works of Aristotle, particularly the <i><a href="/wiki/Posterior_Analytics" title="Posterior Analytics">Posterior Analytics</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Physics_(Aristotle)" title="Physics (Aristotle)">Physics</a></i>, and the book <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Soul" title="On the Soul">On the Soul</a></i>. In the 5th century, <a href="/wiki/Ammonius_Hermiae" title="Ammonius Hermiae">Ammonius Hermiae</a> represented Plato and Aristotle in agreeing that god was the artificier of a beginningless universe.<sup id="cite_ref-routledge_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-routledge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Olympiodorus_the_Younger" title="Olympiodorus the Younger">Olympiodorus</a>, an Alexandrian philosopher, wrote commentaries upon Aristotle's <i><a href="/wiki/Meteorology_(Aristotle)" title="Meteorology (Aristotle)">Meteorology</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Categories_(Aristotle)" title="Categories (Aristotle)">Categories</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-whewell_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whewell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Simplicius_of_Cilicia" title="Simplicius of Cilicia">Simplicius of Cilicia</a> (6th century) wrote extensive commentaries upon Aristotle, and, like many of the other Neoplatonists, attempted to reconcile the doctrines of the <a href="/wiki/Pythagoreanism" title="Pythagoreanism">Pythagoreans</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Eleatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleatic">Eleatics</a>, of Plato, and of the <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoics</a>, with those of Aristotle.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also strenuously defended Aristotle's doctrine concerning the <a href="/wiki/Eternity_of_the_world" title="Eternity of the world">eternity of the world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-whewell_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whewell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 6th century, <a href="/wiki/Boethius" title="Boethius">Boethius</a> entertained the design of translating into <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> the whole of Aristotle's and Plato's works and of showing their agreement—a gigantic plan, which he never executed.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alongside the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Categoriae_Decem" class="mw-redirect" title="Categoriae Decem">Categoriae Decem</a></i></span> misattributed to <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">St Augustine</a>, his <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> translations and commentaries on Aristotle's <a href="/wiki/Categories_(Aristotle)" title="Categories (Aristotle)"><i>Categories</i></a> and <i><a href="/wiki/On_Interpretation" title="On Interpretation">On Interpretation</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher)" title="Porphyry (philosopher)">Porphyry</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Isagoge" title="Isagoge">Isagoge</a></i> became the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">logica vetus</i></span> ("old logic") through which Aristotle was almost exclusively known in Western Europe until the 1130s.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Boethius's near contemporary <a href="/wiki/John_Philoponus" title="John Philoponus">John Philoponus</a>, however, maintained that Aristotle had been entirely misunderstood by Porphyry and Proclus's incorporation of his terms into Neoplatonism and by projects like Boethius's that sought to reconcile Aristotle with Plato's <a href="/wiki/Theory_of_forms" title="Theory of forms">theory of forms</a>; John instead offered a Christian interpretation of the Aristotelian corpus.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others, again, wrote epitomes, compounds, abstracts; and tried to throw the works of Aristotle into some simpler and more obviously regular form, as <a href="/wiki/John_of_Damascus" title="John of Damascus">John of Damascus</a>, in the middle of the 8th century, who made abstracts of some of Aristotle's works, and introduced the study of the author into theological education. John of Damascus lived under the patronage of the Arabs, and was at first secretary to the <a href="/wiki/Caliph" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliph">Caliph</a>, but afterwards withdrew to a <a href="/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery">monastery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islamic_commentators">Islamic commentators</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Islamic commentators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism#Islamic_world" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism § Islamic_world</a></div> <p>In the 9th century, the Platonising school of <a href="/wiki/Th%C4%81bit_ibn_Qurra" title="Thābit ibn Qurra">Thābit ibn Qurra</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> translated Aristotle and his commentators into Arabic.<sup id="cite_ref-routledge_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-routledge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Islamic scholars made a point of studying the writings of Aristotle, especially his <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysical</a> and logical writings, and also of his <i>Physics</i>. They wrote commentaries on Aristotle, and developed still further the abstract logical element. Many of these commentaries are still extant.<sup id="cite_ref-hegel_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hegel-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Al-Kindi" title="Al-Kindi">Al-Kindi</a>, who wrote a commentary on Aristotelian logic, lived in the 9th century, under <a href="/wiki/Al-Ma%27mun" title="Al-Ma'mun">Al-Ma'mun</a>. <a href="/wiki/Al-Farabi" title="Al-Farabi">Al-Farabi</a> (10th century) wrote commentaries on Aristotle's <i><a href="/wiki/Organon" title="Organon">Organon</a></i>, which were made diligent use of by the <a href="/wiki/Scholastics" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholastics">Scholastics</a>. It is related of him that he read through Aristotle's treatise <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Hearing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="On Hearing (page does not exist)">On Hearing</a></i> forty times, and his <i><a href="/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle)" title="Rhetoric (Aristotle)">Rhetoric</a></i> two hundred times, without getting at all tired of them.<sup id="cite_ref-hegel_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hegel-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The physicians made a study of philosophy, and formulated theories; among them was <a href="/wiki/Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a> (c. 980-1037), who came from <a href="/wiki/Bukhara" title="Bukhara">Bukhara</a>, to the east of the <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian Sea</a>; he wrote a commentary on Aristotle. <a href="/wiki/Al-Ghazali" title="Al-Ghazali">Al-Ghazali</a> (1058–1111) wrote compendiums of logic and metaphysics. <a href="/wiki/Averroes" title="Averroes">Averroes</a> (1126–1198), sometimes referred to simply as 'The Commentator', was especially distinguished as a commentator of Aristotle.<sup id="cite_ref-hegel_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hegel-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He often wrote two or three different commentaries on the same work, and some 38 commentaries by Averroes on the works of Aristotle have been identified.<sup id="cite_ref-grant30_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grant30-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although his writings had only marginal impact in Islamic countries, his works had a huge impact in the <a href="/wiki/Latin_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin West">Latin West</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th_century" title="Latin translations of the 12th century">Latin translations of the 12th and 13th centuries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grant30_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grant30-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Byzantine_commentators">Byzantine commentators</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Byzantine commentators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The line of the Aristotelian commentators was continued to the later ages of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. In the 12th century <a href="/wiki/Anna_Comnena" class="mw-redirect" title="Anna Comnena">Anna Comnena</a> organised a group of scholars which included the commentators <a href="/wiki/Michael_of_Ephesus" title="Michael of Ephesus">Michael of Ephesus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-routledge_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-routledge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Eustratius_of_Nicaea" title="Eustratius of Nicaea">Eustratius of Nicaea</a> who employed himself upon the dialectic and moral treatises, and whom she does not hesitate to elevate above the Stoics and Platonists for his talent in philosophical discussions.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicephorus_Blemmydes" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicephorus Blemmydes">Nicephorus Blemmydes</a> wrote logical and physical epitomes for the use of <a href="/wiki/John_III_Doukas_Vatatzes" title="John III Doukas Vatatzes">John III Doukas Vatatzes</a>; <a href="/wiki/George_Pachymeres" title="George Pachymeres">George Pachymeres</a> composed an epitome of the philosophy of Aristotle, and a compendium of his logic: <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Metochites" title="Theodore Metochites">Theodore Metochites</a>, who was famous in his time for his eloquence and his learning, has left a paraphrase of the books of Aristotle on <i>Physics</i>, <i>On the Soul</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Heavens" title="On the Heavens">On the Heavens</a></i>, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-brucker_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brucker-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same period saw the commentaries and paraphrases of <a href="/wiki/Sophonias_(commentator)" title="Sophonias (commentator)">Sophonias</a>. In the post-Byzantine period, one of the most important Aristotelian commentators is <a href="/wiki/Theophilos_Corydalleus" title="Theophilos Corydalleus">Theophilos Corydalleus</a>. </p><p>One Byzantine-era commentator, <a href="/wiki/All%C4%ABn%C5%ABs" title="Allīnūs">Allīnūs</a>, is known only from citations and excerpts in Arabic sources.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commentators_in_the_Latin_West">Commentators in the Latin West</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Commentators in the Latin West"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scholastic philosophy in the Latin West was decisively shaped when the works of Aristotle became widely available, at first through translations of commentators and their basis texts from Arabic, and later through translations from Greek of Aristotle's original text (notably by <a href="/wiki/William_of_Moerbeke" title="William of Moerbeke">William of Moerbeke</a>) and of the Greek commentators. <a href="/wiki/Albertus_Magnus" title="Albertus Magnus">Albertus Magnus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duns_Scotus" title="Duns Scotus">Duns Scotus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/William_of_Ockham" title="William of Ockham">William of Ockham</a>, among many others, wrote important philosophical works in the form of Aristotelian commentaries. On this basis, 14th -century scholar <a href="/wiki/Nicole_Oresme" title="Nicole Oresme">Nicole Oresme</a> translated Aristotle's moral works into French and wrote extensive <a href="/wiki/Livre_de_Politiques" title="Livre de Politiques">comments</a> on them. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lists_and_indices_of_commentaries">Lists and indices of commentaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lists and indices of commentaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A list of Medieval and Renaissance commentaries on all of Aristotle's works has been compiled by Charles H. Lohr:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1967: “Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Authors A-F”, <i>Traditio</i>, 23, 313-413.</li> <li>1968: “Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Authors G-I”, <i>Traditio</i>, 24, 149-245.</li> <li>1970: "Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Authors Jacobus-Johannes Juff", <i>Traditio</i>, 26, 135-216.</li> <li>1971: "Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Authors Johannes de Kanthi–Myngodus", <i>Traditio</i>, 27, 251-351.</li> <li>1972: "Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Authors Narcissus–Richardus", <i>Traditio</i>, 28, 281-396.</li> <li>1973: "Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Authors Robertus–Wilgelmus", <i>Traditio</i>, 29, 93-197.</li> <li>1974: "Medieval Aristotle Commentaries: Supplementary Authors ", <i>Traditio</i>, 30, 119-144.</li> <li>1974: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors A-B", <i>Studies in the Renaissance</i>, 21, 228-289.</li> <li>1975: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors C", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 28, 689-741.</li> <li>1976: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors D-F", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 29, 714-745.</li> <li>1977: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors G-K", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 30, 681-741.</li> <li>1978: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors L-M", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 31, 532-603.</li> <li>1979: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors N-Ph", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 32, 529-580.</li> <li>1980: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors Pi-Sm", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 33, 623-734.</li> <li>1982: "Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors So-Z", <i>Renaissance Quarterly</i>, 35, 164-256.</li></ul> <p>The articles are reprinted in the following volumes by Charles H. Lohr: </p> <ul><li><i>Latin Aristotle Commentaries. I.1. Medieval Authors. A-L</i> (Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia, 17), Firenze: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013.</li> <li><i>Latin Aristotle Commentaries. I.2. Medieval Authors. M-Z</i> (Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia, 18), Firenze: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010.</li> <li><i>Latin Aristotle Commentaries. II. Renaissance Authors</i> (Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia, 6), Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988.</li> <li><i>Latin Aristotle Commentaries. III. Index initiorum - Index finium</i> (Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia, 10), Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988.</li> <li><i>Latin Aristotle Commentaries. V. Bibliography of Secondary Literature</i> (Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi. Subsidia, 15), Firenze: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_commentators_project" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient commentators project">Ancient commentators project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commentaria_in_Aristotelem_Graeca" title="Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca">Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commentaries_on_Plato" title="Commentaries on Plato">Commentaries on Plato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conimbricenses" title="Conimbricenses">Conimbricenses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_writers_influenced_by_Aristotle" title="List of writers influenced by Aristotle">List of writers influenced by Aristotle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Renaissance_commentators_on_Aristotle" title="List of Renaissance commentators on Aristotle">List of Renaissance commentators on Aristotle</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Walzer 1962, pages 75–76</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heinrich Kuhn, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotelianism-renaissance/">Aristotelianism in the Renaissance</a>," <i>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> accessed September 22, 2009.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Brucker" title="Johann Jakob Brucker">Johann Jakob Brucker</a>, (1837), <i>The History of Philosophy, from the Earliest Periods</i>, pages 349-53</li> <li>Edward Grant, (1996), <i>The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious Institutional and Intellectual Contexts</i>, page 30. Cambridge University Press</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</a>, (1896), <i>Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Part Two. Philosophy of the Middle Ages</i>, pages 34–35</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFranz_Rosenthal1972" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Franz_Rosenthal" title="Franz Rosenthal">Franz Rosenthal</a> (1972), "A Commentator of Aristotle", in <a href="/wiki/S._M._Stern" class="mw-redirect" title="S. M. Stern">S. M. Stern</a>; <a href="/wiki/Albert_Hourani" title="Albert Hourani">Albert Hourani</a>; Vivian Brown (eds.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/islamicphilosoph0000unse"><i>Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: Essays Presented by His Friends and Pupils to Richard Walzer on His Seventieth Birthday</i></a>, University of South Carolina Press, pp. 337–349</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=A+Commentator+of+Aristotle&rft.btitle=Islamic+Philosophy+and+the+Classical+Tradition%3A+Essays+Presented+by+His+Friends+and+Pupils+to+Richard+Walzer+on+His+Seventieth+Birthday&rft.pages=337-349&rft.pub=University+of+South+Carolina+Press&rft.date=1972&rft.au=Franz+Rosenthal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fislamicphilosoph0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACommentaries+on+Aristotle" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Sorabji" title="Richard Sorabji">Richard Sorabji</a>, "Aristotle Commentators" entry in <i>Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> (1998)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichard_Walzer1962" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Walzer" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Walzer">Richard Walzer</a> (1962), "New Light on the Arabic Translations of Aristotle", <i>Greek into Arabic; Essays on Islamic Philosophy</i>, Harvard University Press, pp. 60–113</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=New+Light+on+the+Arabic+Translations+of+Aristotle&rft.btitle=Greek+into+Arabic%3B+Essays+on+Islamic+Philosophy&rft.pages=60-113&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1962&rft.au=Richard+Walzer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACommentaries+on+Aristotle" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Whewell" title="William Whewell">William Whewell</a>, (1837), <i>History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times</i>, pages 271-5</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Fabrizio Amerini, Gabriele Galluzzo (eds.), (2013), <i>A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics</i>, Leiden-Boston: Brill.</li> <li>Andrea Falcon (ed.), (2016), <i>Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity</i>, Leiden-Boston: Brill.</li> <li>Roy K. Gibson, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, (eds,), (2002), <i>The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory</i>, Leiden-Boston: Brill.</li> <li>Lloyd A. Newton (ed.), (2008), <i>Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories</i> (Leiden, Brill, 2008) (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 10).</li> <li>Richard Sorabji (ed.), (1990), <i>Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and their Influence</i>, Duckworth.</li> <li>Richard Sorabji (ed.), (2005), <i>The Philosophy of the Commentators 200-600 AD. A Sourcebook</i>. Cornell University Press (3 volumes).</li> <li>Miira Tuominen, (2009), <i>The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle</i>, Durham: Acumen.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commentaries_on_Aristotle&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFalcon" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Falcon, Andrea. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-commentators/">"Commentators on Aristotle"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Edward_N._Zalta" title="Edward N. 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style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Aristotle%27s_biology" title="Aristotle's biology">On Animals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Animals" title="History of Animals">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parts_of_Animals" title="Parts of Animals">Parts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movement_of_Animals" title="Movement of Animals">Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progression_of_Animals" title="Progression of Animals">Progression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generation_of_Animals" title="Generation of Animals">Generation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Metaphysics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metaphysics_(Aristotle)" title="Metaphysics (Aristotle)">Metaphysics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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title="On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration">On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lost</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protrepticus_(Aristotle)" title="Protrepticus (Aristotle)">Protrepticus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Aristotle" title="Pseudo-Aristotle">Pseudepigrapha</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/On_Breath" title="On Breath">On Breath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_Colors" title="On Colors">On Colors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_Plants" title="On Plants">On Plants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_Indivisible_Lines" title="On Indivisible Lines">On Indivisible 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title="Economics (Aristotle)">Economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhetoric_to_Alexander" title="Rhetoric to Alexander">Rhetoric to Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magna_Moralia" title="Magna Moralia">Magna Moralia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Followers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Peripatetic_school" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Peripatetic_school" title="Peripatetic school">Peripatetic school</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristoxenus" title="Aristoxenus">Aristoxenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clearchus_of_Soli" title="Clearchus of Soli">Clearchus of Soli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dicaearchus" title="Dicaearchus">Dicaearchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudemus_of_Rhodes" title="Eudemus of Rhodes">Eudemus of Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_of_Lampsacus" title="Strato of Lampsacus">Strato of Lampsacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyco_of_Troas" title="Lyco of Troas">Lyco of Troas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristo_of_Ceos" title="Aristo of Ceos">Aristo of Ceos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critolaus" title="Critolaus">Critolaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_of_Tyre" title="Diodorus of Tyre">Diodorus of Tyre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erymneus" title="Erymneus">Erymneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronicus_of_Rhodes" title="Andronicus of Rhodes">Andronicus of Rhodes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Islamic_Golden_Age" 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