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Ptolemy (Early 1st – Mid 2nd c. AD), On Aristotle’s Life, Testament and Writings. Translation and Study

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2020
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Rovati, E. (2020). Ptolemy (Early 1st – Mid 2nd c. AD), On Aristotle’s Life, Testament and Writings. Translation and Study. (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-200493

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A number of recent articles1 have revived scholarly interest in the ancient biographies of Aristotle and catalogues of his writings, a subject that has otherwise been almost entirely stagnating since the mid 1980’s. A key source for investigating this field is On Aristotle’s Life, Testament and Writings by a certain Ptolemy, a work lost in its original Greek version (Vita Ptolemaei Graeca, henceforth VPG) but extant in an Arabic translation (Vita Ptolemaei Arabice versa, VPA). A manuscript of VPA has been long known to scholarship but

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Faculty of Arts

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  • Riedweg, Christoph

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English

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2020-12-01

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Rovati, E. (2020). Ptolemy (Early 1st – Mid 2nd c. AD), On Aristotle’s Life, Testament and Writings. Translation and Study. (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-200493

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