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

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 CE to Late Antiquity
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 January 2022
Pages
352
ISBN
9781350250437

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

Richard D. McKirahan (Pomona College, USA)

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.

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