Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 1: Some Novel Interpretations of the Man and His Life

540 Pages·2015·3.55 MB·English

by  Anton-Hermann Chroust

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ARISTOTLE
Volume 1
ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON
SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 1
ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS
LIFE AND ON SOME OF HIS LOST
WORKS VOLUME 1
Some novel interpretations of the man and his life
ANTON-HERMANN CHROUST
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ARISTOTLE
New light on his life and on some of his lost
works
Volume I
Some novel interpretations of the man and his life
Anton-Hermann Chroust

First published in 1973
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Contents
Preface
Volume I
Some novel interpretations of the man and his life
Abbreviations
Introduction
I A Brief Account of the (Lost) Vita Aristotelis of Hermippus and of the (Lost) Vita Aristotelis of Ptolemy
(-el-Garib)
II The Vita Aristotelis of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
III An Analysis of the Vita Aristotelis of Diogenes Laertius (DL V. 1–16)
IV A Summary of the Syriac and Arabic Vitae Aristotelis
V The Genealogy and Family of Aristotle
VI Aristotle and Callisthenes of Olynthus
VII Aristotle Enters the Academy
VIII Aristotle’s Earliest ‘Course of Lectures on Rhetoric’
IX Aristotle Leaves the Academy
X Was Aristotle Actually the Chief Preceptor of Alexander the Great?
XI Aristotle’s Return to Athens in the Year 335-34 B.C .
XII Aristotle’s Flight from Athens in the Year 323 B.C .
XIII Aristotle, Athens and the Foreign Policy of Macedonia
XIV The Myth of Aristotle’s Suicide
XV Aristotle’s Last Will and Testament
XVI Aristotle’s Religious Convictions
XVII Aristotle’s ‘Self-Portrayal’
Conclusion
Notes
Index of Ancient Authors and Sources
Index of Modern Authors

Volume II
Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works
Abbreviations
Introduction
I The Probable Dates of Some of Aristotle’s Lost Works
II A Note on Some of the Minor Lost Works of Aristotle
III Aristotle’s First Literary Effort: The Gryllus—A Work on the Nature of Rhetoric
IV Eudemus or On the Soul: An Aristotelian Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul
V The Psychology in Aristotle’s Eudemus or On the Soul
VI Aristotle’s On Justice
VII A Brief Account of the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Protrepticus
VIII An Emendation to Fragment 13 (Walzer, Ross) of Aristotle’s Protrepticus
IX What Prompted Aristotle to Address the Protrepticus to Themison of Cyprus?
X The Term ‘Philosopher’ and the Panegyric Analogy in Aristotle’s Protrepticus
XI Aristotle’s Politicus
XII The Probable Date of Aristotle’s On Philosophy
XIII A Cosmological (Teleological) Proof for the Existence of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy
XIV The Concept of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy (Cicero, De Natura Deorum I. 13. 33)
XV The Doctrine of the Soul in Aristotle’s On Philosophy
XVI Aristotle’s On Philosophy and the ‘Philosophies of the East’
XVII Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s ‘Philosopher King’: Some Comments to Aristotle’s On Kingship
Conclusion
Postscript Werner Jaeger and the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Lost Works
Notes
Index of Ancient Authors
Index of Modern Authors