A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle: Combining the Greek–English Indexes from the Eponymous...

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Richard D. McKirahan (Pomona College, USA)

A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Combining the Greek–English Indexes from the Eponymous Series Spanning Works from the 2nd Century...

Richard D. McKirahan (Pomona College, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
10 March 2022

Language: reference & general; Serials, periodicals, abstracts, indexes; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series comprises some 114,000 entries. It forms in effect a unique dictionary of philosophical terms from the post-Hellenistic period through to late antiquity and will be an essential reference tool for any scholar working on the meaning of these ancient texts. As traditional dictionaries have usually neglected to include translation examples from philosophical texts of this period, scholars interested in how meanings of words vary across time and author have been ill served. This index fills a huge gap, therefore, in the lexical analysis of ancient Greek and has application well beyond the reading of ancient philosophical commentaries.

Bringing together the full indexes from 110 of the volumes published in Bloomsbury's Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, McKirahan has combined each word entry and analysed how many times particular translations occur. He presents his findings numerically so that each meaning in turn has a note as to the number of times it is used. For meanings that are found between one and four times the volume details are also given so that readers may quickly and easily look up the texts themselves.

By: Richard D. McKirahan (Pomona College USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm,
Weight: 752g
ISBN: 9781350250437
ISBN 10: 1350250430
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 10 March 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Sir Richard Sorabji Introduction Reference list of titles in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series Index of words

Richard McKirahan is E.C. Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy, Pomona College, USA. He has published widely on ancient philosophy and science, including Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 (Bloomsbury, 2001), Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.1-8 (Bloomsbury, 2008) and Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.9-18 (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Reviews for A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle: Combining the Greek–English Indexes from the Eponymous Series Spanning Works from the 2nd Century CE to Late Antiquity

This is a really useful resource for philologists, translators, and students of ancient philosophy. It is also an interesting 'meta-project', providing information about the sorts of choices and preferences made by translators of individual volumes. This is not a dictionary as such, because it goes beyond what a dictionary can do in what it reveals about modern scholarship on the commentators on Aristotle. * Greece and Rome *