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Alexander of Aphrodisias's commentary (about AD 200) is the earliest extant commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, and it is the most valuable indirect witness to the Metaphysics text and its transmission. Mirjam Kotwick's study is a systematic investigation into the version of the Metaphysics that Alexander used when writing his commentary, and into the various ways his text, his commentary, and the texts transmitted through our manuscripts relate to one another. Through a careful analysis of lemmata, quotations, and Alexander's discussion of Aristotle's argument Kotwick shows how to uncover and partly reconstruct a Metaphysics version from the second century AD. Kotwick then uses this version for improving the text that came down to us by the direct manuscript tradition and for finding solutions to some of the puzzles in this tradition. Through a side-by-side examination of Alexander's text, his interpretation of Aristotle's thought, and the directly transmitted versions of the Metaphysics, Kotwick reveals how Alexander's commentary may have influenced the text of our manuscripts at different stages of the transmission process. This study is the first book-length examination of a commentary as a witness to an ancient philosophical text. This blend of textual criticism and philosophical analysis both expands on existing methodologies in classical scholarship and develops new ones.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Metaphysics. --- Science --- Sciences --- Métaphysique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Alexander, --- Aristotle. --- Influence. --- Metaphysics (Aristotle) --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Metaphysics (Aristotle). --- Métaphysique --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Aristoteles. --- Alessandro, --- Alexandre, --- Alexandros, --- Aphrodisæus, Alexander --- Iskandar al-Afrūdīsī --- אלכסנדר, --- Ἀλέξανδρος, --- E-books

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Der 1962 entdeckte Derveni-Papyrus bietet für die Bereiche der frühgriechischen Philosophie und Religion sowie der antiken Literaturwissenschaft eine der wichtigsten Neuentdeckungen seit der Renaissance. Die Reste der zur Hälfte verbrannten Papyrusrolle enthalten eine Abhandlung (wohl verfasst am Ende des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.), in der ein uns namentlich unbekannter Autor eine orphische Theogonie allegorisch interpretiert. Der Autor versteht den oftmals skandalösen Mythos von der Machtergreifung des Zeus als physikalische Erklärung der Entstehung unserer Welt. Mirjam E. Kotwick hat diesen faszinierenden Text nun erstmalig ins Deutsche übersetzt und ausführlich kommentiert. Eine Einleitung gibt einen Überblick über Zustand und Rekonstruktion des Textes sowie zum intellektuellen Hintergrund des Derveni-Autors. Übersetzung und Kommentierung basieren auf dem griechischen Text von Richard Janko, der hier erstmals in einer durch neue bildgebende Verfahren verbesserten Version erscheint. The Derveni Papyrus, discovered in Greece in 1962, is one of the oldest Greek papyri ever found. The work it contains was written at the end of the 5th century BCE by an unknown author, who allegorizes an Orphic myth into a physical account of the creation of the universe. This text provides us with fascinating new insights in the areas of Greek religion, Orphic poetry, early Greek philosophy, and early Greek allegorical interpretation. Mirjam E. Kotwick makes the work available for the first time in German translation and provides an extensive commentary. Kotwick’s commentary and translation are based on an improved text of the papyrus by Richard Janko relying on new imaging techniques.

Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Derveni papyrus. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Dionysia. --- Cults --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Greece --- Religion. --- Allegorese. --- Frühgriechische Philosophie. --- Orphic Poetry. --- Orphische Dichtung. --- Papyrus. --- allegories. --- early Greek philosophy. --- papyrus. --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Dionysia

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