Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator

by Han Baltussen

This is the first book-length study in English of the interpretative and philosophical approach of the commentaries of Simplicius of Cilicia (c. AD 530). Simplicius' work, marked by doctrinal complexity and scholarship, is unusually self-conscious, learned and rich in its sources, and he is therefore one of those rare authors who is of interest to ancient philosophers, historians and classicists alike. Here, Han Baltussen argues that our understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071563500X
• ISBN13: 9780715635001
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"