Sergius of Reshaina
Subtitle: introduction to Aristotle and his Categories, addressed to Philotheos
By: Syriac text, with introduction, translation, and commentary by Sami Aydin
Series: Aristoteles semitico-latinus -- volume 24; Aristoteles Semitico-latinus -- v. 24
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; syc
Translated from: syc
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789004324954; 9789004325142
Subjects: Categoriae (Aristotle); Physics (Aristotle)
Other titles: Introduction to Aristotle and his Categories, addressed to Philotheos
Description: "The physician and commentator Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) composed two related texts in Syriac about the philosophy of Aristotle, chiefly dealing with themes discussed by Aristotle in his Categories, but also with his teaching on space as found in the Physics. This book presents a critical edition and English translation of the shorter of these texts. A survey of Sergius' life and works is given in the introduction and the intellectual context of his education in Alexandria is outlined, with focus on the medical and philosophical curricula of the Alexandrian school. Sergius' line of thought is clarified and his text is compared to Greek commentaries on the Categories that also present the teaching of his Neoplatonist master Ammonius Hermeiou."--
Notes: Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala universitet, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and Syriac.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Aim and Scope; title: Sergius' Life; title: Sergius as Writer; title: Original Works; title: Philosophical Works Here Considered Authentic; title: Dubious Attribution of Philosophical Works; title: Philosophical Adaptations and Translations; title: A Lost Philosophical Work (?) and a Possible Translation; title: An Original Theological Introduction and a Translation; title: Lost Theological Works; title: Sergius' Medical Adaptations and Translations; title: Some Rhetorical topoi in Sergius' Extant Prefaces; title: Sergius' Achievements as Translator; title: Sergius' Educational Background; title: The City of Reshaina; title: The Various Curricula Offered at the Alexandrian School; title: The Medical Curriculum of the Alexandrian School; title: The Philosophical Curriculum of the Alexandrian School; title: Sergius as a Commentator of Aristotle; title: Why Sergius Composed Commentaries and Not Translations; title: Other Commentators Dealt with Here; title: Important Antecedent Commentators; title: Important Contemporary Commentators; title: Important Subsequent Commentators; title: The Question of Originality; title: Sergius' Sources; title: Sergius and his School?; title: Commentary on Aristotle's Categories and Introduction to Aristotle and His Categories; title: The Chronology of Sergius' Two Texts; title: Aristotle's Categories: How It Was Viewed and Read; title: A Synoptic Overview of the Contents of Sergius' Two Works; title: Linguistic Observations, Especially of Some Particles; title: The Manuscript of Sergius' Introduction; title: Concluding Remarks; title: Editorial Principles; title: Text and Translation of Sergius' Introduction to Aristotle and His Categories; title: Textual Notes; title: Commentary; title: Bibliography; title: Syriac-Greek Glossary; title: Greek-Syriac Glossary; title: Greek Names in Sergius' Introduction; title: Syriac-English Index; title: English-Syriac Index; title: Name and Place Index.