The Byzantine Fortuna of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Commentary on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensibilibus

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to trace the reception of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ commentary on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensibilibus in philosophical literature in Greek between the end of Late Antiquity and the fourteenth century. It offers a summary account of the material evidence for the presence of the commentary in the period, as well as more detailed discussions of texts in which its influence is manifest, especially Michael Psellos, Philosophica minora 2:8, George Pachymeres, Philosophia 8.1–2 and Theodore Metochites, In De sensu. The two latter texts are still unedited.