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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.
There, Andronicus of Rhodes organized the texts into the first complete edition of Aristotle's works (and works attributed to him). [9] The Aristotelian texts we have today are based on these. [ 8 ] : 6–8
Organon Roman copy in marble of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippos, c. 330 BC, with modern alabaster mantle. The Organon (Ancient Greek: Ὄργανον, meaning "instrument, tool, organ") is the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logical analysis and dialectic.
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.
There, Andronicus of Rhodes organized the texts into the first complete edition of Aristotle's works (and works attributed to him). [14] These relics form the basis of present-day editions, including that of the Nicomachean Ethics. Aspasius wrote a commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics in the early 2nd century CE. It suggests "that the text [at ...
The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short works on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology. The individual works are as follows (with links to online English translations):
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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.