6/8/2023 0 Comments Aristotle metaphysics greekPrimavesi puts a great deal of trust in the Commentator: whenever we can rely upon him, O. Primavesi has made Bydén’s wish come true, since he has turned his attention precisely to the problem of assessing to what extent manuscripts of the α- and the β-branches diverge and how they stand in relation both to the text Alexander of Aphrodisias is likely to have known and to medieval Arab and Latin translations of Aristotle’s work. Bydén put it a few years ago, 1 in recent times improvements to Aristotle’s text are to be expected from a careful re- evaluation of extant sources rather than from the unlikely discovery of neglected witnesses. Since it is the most distinctive feature of the book, let us start with O. Steel’s proceedings deserve to be welcomed as much as their predecessors and, on account of O. As a result, each new addition is greeted by Aristotelian aficionados as a major event. With a corpus in progress of well over 6,000 pages, compiled by three generations of hand-picked experts, the Symposia Aristotelica rank among contemporary scholarship’s great achievements.
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