Commentaria in Aristotle Graeca

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The Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) are the scientifically fundamental edition of the ancient and late ancient Greek commentaries on the writings of the philosopher Aristotle . It was created by numerous philologists on behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin under the editing of Hermann Diels .

history

The CAG was preceded by the great Aristotle Complete Edition of the Berlin Academy, the volumes of which had been available since 1836 and which was completed with the appearance of the indices in 1870. In order to make the history of the impact and reception of Aristotelian philosophy comprehensible, the numerous ancient and Byzantine commentaries had to be published in critical editions . In 1874 the philosopher Eduard Zeller applied to the Academy to include a corresponding edition project. For the first time, the edition should be based on a precise comparison of the manuscripts.

The Academy accepted the application and entrusted Zeller and members Hermann Bonitz and Johannes Vahlen with the supervision of the company. The philologist Adolf Torstrik was appointed editor , but he died in 1877. After his death, Hermann Diels took over the task. Under his leadership, the company's 23 volumes were published in 51 sub-volumes from 1882 to 1909 by Verlag Georg Reimer . The originally planned volumes 24 and 25, which were supposed to contain the comments of the Byzantine metropolitan Leo Magentinus and various comments of unexplained authorship, were not realized.

The text-critical editions of the CAG often represent editiones principles of the respective texts and have often not yet been replaced by more recent editions.

Completion, continuation, translation

The CAG was supplemented by the Supplementum Aristotelicum in six volumes during the project phase . They have been continued since 2007 through the edition of further Aristotle commentaries up to the Byzantine period in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina (CAGB), which were published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences under the direction of Dieter Harlfinger , Christof Rapp , Marwan Rashed and Diether R. Reinsch published.

A supplement to a commentary by Alexander was found by Emma Gannagé in an Arabic work. She has identified four chapters (2.2-5) of the lost commentary by Alexander von Aphrodisias on Aristotle 's work On Becoming and Passing away in an Arabic translation by the alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān from the 8th century and presented them for the first time in a translation. Gannagé was able to show that Alexander tried in this commentary to combine Aristotle's theory of changes in substance and its physics into a unified theory.

A large number of these comments have now been translated into English as part of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project (ACA) initiated and led by Richard Sorabji .

List of the partial volumes of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca

tape Author and title editor Publishing year
1 Alexander Aphrodisiensis , In Aristotelis metaphysica commentaria Michael Hayduck 1891
2.1 Alexander Aphrodisiensis , In Aristotelis analyticorum priorum librum 1 commentarium Max Wallies 1883
2.2 Alexander Aphrodisiensis , In Aristotelis topicorum libros octo commentaria Max Wallies 1891
2.3 Alexander , quod fertur Michael Ephesius , In Aristotelis sophisticos elenchos commentarium Max Wallies 1898
3.1 Alexander Aphrodisiensis , In librum de sensu commentarium Paul Wendland 1901
3.2 Alexander Aphrodisiensis , In Aristotelis metereologicorum libros commentarium Michael Hayduck 1899
4.1 Porphyrius , Isagoge et in Aristotelis categorias Adolf Busse 1887
4.2 Dexippus , In Aristotelis categorias commentaria Adolf Busse 1888
4.3 Ammonius , In Porphyrii isagogen sive V voces Adolf Busse 1891
4.4 Ammonius , In Aristotelis categorias commentarius Adolf Busse 1895
4.5 Ammonius , In Aristotelis De interpretatione commentarius Adolf Busse 1897
4.6 Ammonius , In Aristotelis analyticorum priorum librum 1 commentarium Max Wallies 1899
5.1 Themistii analyticorum posteriorium paraphrasis Max Wallies 1900
5.2 Themistii in Aristotelis physica paraphrasis Heinrich Schenkl 1900
5.3 Themistii in libros Aristotelis de anima paraphrasis Richard Heinze 1899
5.4 Themistii in libros Aristotelis de caelo paraphrasis hebraice et latine Samuel Landauer 1902
5.5 Themistii in Aristotelis metaphysicorum librum Λ paraphrasis hebraice et latine Samuel Landauer 1903
5.6 Pseudo-Themistius, In parva naturalia commentarium Paul Wendland 1903
6.1 Syrianus , In Metaphysica (Β – Γ, Μ – Ν) commentaria Wilhelm Kroll 1902
6.2 Asclepius , In Aristotelis metaphysicorum libros Α – Ζ commentaria Michael Hayduck 1888
7th Simplicius , In Aristotelis de caelo commentaria Johan Ludvig Heiberg 1894
8th Simplicius , In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium Karl veal 1907
9 Simplicius , In Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor priores Hermann Diels 1882
10 Simplicius , In Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores Hermann Diels 1895
11 Simplicius , In libros Aristotelis de anima commentaria, Michael Hayduck 1882
12.1 Olympiodorus , Prolegomena et in categorias, Adolf Busse 1902
12.2 Olympiodorus , In Aristotelis meteora commentaria Wilhelm Stüve 1900
13.1 Philoponi (olim Ammonii ) In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium Adolf Busse 1898
13.2 Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis analytica priora commentaria Max Wallies 1905
13.3 Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis analytica posteriora commentaria cum Anonymo in librum II Max Wallies 1909
14.1 Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium Michael Hayduck 1901
14.2 Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis libros de generatione et corruptione commentaria Girolamo Vitelli 1897
14.3 Ioannis Philoponi ( Michaelis Ephesii ) in libros de generatione animalium commentaria Michael Hayduck 1903
15th Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis de anima libros commentaria Michael Hayduck 1897
16 Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis physicorum libros tres priores commentaria Girolamo Vitelli 1887
17th Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis physicorum libros quinque posteriores commentaria Girolamo Vitelli 1888
18.1 Eliae In Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias commentaria Adolf Busse 1900
18.2 Davidis Prolegomena et in Porphyrii Isagogen commentarium Adolf Busse 1904
18.3 Stephani in librum Aristotelis de interpretatione commentarium Michael Hayduck 1885
19.1 Aspasii in ethica Nicomachea quae supersunt commentaria Gustav Heylbut 1889
19.2 Heliodori in ethica Nicomachea paraphrasis Gustav Heylbut 1889
20th Eustratii et Michaelis et Anonyma in ethica Nicomachea commentaria Gustav Heylbut 1892
21.1 Eustratii in analyticorum posteriorum librum secundum commentarium Michael Hayduck 1907
21.2 Anonymi et Stephani in artem rhetoricam commentaria Hugo Rabe 1896
22.1 Michaelis Ephesii in parva naturalia commentaria Paul Wendland 1903
22.2 Michaelis Ephesii in libros de partibus animalium, de animalium motione, de animalium incessu commentaria Michael Hayduck 1904
22.3 Michaelis Ephesii in librum quintum ethicorum Nicomacheorum commentarium Michael Hayduck 1901
23.1 Sophoniae in libros de anima paraphrasis Michael Hayduck 1883
23.2 Anonymi categoriarum paraphrasis Michael Hayduck 1883
23.3 Themistii quae fertur in Aristotelis analyticorum priorum librum I paraphrasis Max Wallies 1884
23.4 Anonymi in sophisticos elenchos paraphrasis Max Wallies 1884

List of the partial volumes of the Supplementum Aristotelicum

tape Author and title editor Publishing year
1.1 Excerptorum Constantini de natura animalium libri duo: Aristophanis historiae animalium epitome Spyridon P. Lambros 1885
1.2 Prisciani Lydi quae extant, metaphrasis in Theophrastum et Solutionum ad Chosroem liber Ingram Bywater 1886
2.1 Alexandri Aphrodisiensis scripta minora. 1: Alexandri de anima cum mantissa Ivo Bruns 1887
2.2 Alexandri Aphrodisiensis scripta minora reliqua (quaestiones, de fato, de mixtione) Ivo Bruns 1892
3.1 Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis Iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae Hermann Diels 1893
3.2 Aristotelis Res publica Atheniensium Frederic G. Kenyon 1903

literature

  • Hermann Usener : (Review of CAG and Supplementum Aristotelicum), in: Göttingische Gelehre Anzeige 26, 1892, 1001-1022; Reprint in: Ders .: Kleine Schriften , Volume 3: Works on Greek literary history, history of science, epigraphy. Chronology . Leipzig 1914, 193-214, online .
  • Karl Praechter : The Greek Aristotle Commentaries . In: Byzantine Journal . Volume 18, 1909, pp. 516-538.
    • English translation: Review of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca . In: Richard Sorabji (Ed.): Aristotle Transformed. The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence , 2nd revised edition. Bloomsbury, London 2016, pp. 35-60
  • Olof Gigon : Praefatio in the first volume of the reprint of the Aristotle edition. Berlin / New York 1960, S. Vff.
  • Dietrich Ehlers (ed.): Hermann Diels, Hermann Usener, Eduard Zeller, correspondence . Second volume. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, 429ff .: Documentation on the enterprise of the Greek Aristotle commentaries , online .
  • Wolfgang Rösler : Hermann Diels and the fragments of the pre-Socratics , in: Annette M. Baertschi, Colin Guthrie King (eds.), The modern fathers of antiquity: The development of the ancient sciences at the academy and university in 19th century Berlin . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, pp. 369–395, here: 382 ( online ).
  • Wolfgang Rösler: Eduard Zeller and Hermann Diels , in: Gerald Hartung (Ed.), Eduard Zeller: Philosophy and Science History in the 19th Century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, pp. 261–274, here: 271 ( online ).

Web links

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