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Andronicus is of special interest in the history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch, [4] that he published a new edition of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, which formerly belonged to the library of Apellicon, and were brought to Rome by Sulla with the rest of Apellicon's library in 84.
Many of Aristotle's works are extremely compressed, and many scholars believe that in their current form, they are likely lecture notes. [2] Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century BC, a number of his treatises were referred to as the writings "after ("meta") the Physics" [b], the origin of the current title for the collection Metaphysics.
Thought to have been first performed as early as 1587, Titus Andronicus tells the bloody tale of a Roman General's journey to become Emperor, following his return from ten years of war in Gaul. Dating to 1600, this edition was donated to the University of Edinburgh in 1700 by William Hog.
As Boethus was a disciple of Andronicus of Rhodes, [3] he must have travelled at an early age to Rome and Athens, in which cities Andronicus is known to have taught. Strabo, who mentions him and his brother Diodotus among the celebrated persons of Sidon, speaks of him at the same time as his own teacher (or fellow pupil) in Peripatetic philosophy. [4]
Apellicon (Greek: Ἀπελλικῶν; died c. 84 BC), a wealthy man from Teos, afterwards an Athenian citizen, was a famous book collector of the 1st century BC.. He not only spent large sums in the acquisition of his library, but stole original documents from the archives of Athens and other cities of Greece.
Born probably around 1110, [2] Andronikos Kamateros was the son of Gregory Kamateros, a man of humble origin but well educated, who held several senior government posts under emperors Alexios I Komnenos and John II Komnenos and advanced to the high rank of sebastos, and of Irene Doukaina, probably a daughter of the protostrator Michael Doukas, whose sister Irene was wed to Alexios I. [3] [4 ...
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The Theotokos, orans, standing facing on daïs / Christ standing facing, crowning an emperor to left, holding labarum and akakia. DOC 2b; SB 1984. Near EF, flan crack. This coin type is of disputed geographical and temporal origin; some ascribe it to Andronicus I Comnenus (1183-1185), whereas others ascribe it to Andronicus I Gidus of Trebizond.