Aspasios (Aristotle Commentator)
Aspasios (Greek Ἀσπάσιος Aspásios , Latinized Aspasius ) was a Greek philosopher who lived in the first half of the 2nd century. He was Herminos' teacher .
Aspasios wrote commentaries on various works by Aristotle . Part of his commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics has survived. It is the oldest known commentary on this work. Aspasios also commented on De interpretatione , the physics , De caelo , De sensu , the metaphysics and the categories . These comments are lost and only known from references and quotations in later literature.
Text editions and translations
- Antonina Alberti, Robert W. Sharples (Eds.): Aspasius: The Earliest Extant Commentary on Aristotle's Ethics . De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016081-1
- David Constan : Commentators on Aristotle on Friendship: Aspasius, Anonymous, Michael of Ephesus on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9 . Ithaca / London 2009 ( Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project )
literature
- Richard Goulet: Aspasios. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 1, CNRS, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04042-6 , p. 635 f.
- Inna Kupreeva: Aspasios. In: Christoph Riedweg et al. (Hrsg.): Philosophy of the imperial era and late antiquity (= outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity. Volume 5/1). Schwabe, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7965-3698-4 , pp. 321–328, 438
- Robert W. Sharples : Aspasios 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 104 f.
- Alfred Gercke : Aspasios 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1722 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aspasios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aspasius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek hiking philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 100 |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 150 |