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From: Rainer Thiel <thielr@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Latin translations of Greek texts
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At 19:44 04.05.02, David Lupher wrote:
>Bruce Magee asks:
> >Didn't Boethius translate Aristotle?  Or was his work a looser
> >transmission of Aristotle's ideas?
>
>He translated a good deal, if not all, of Aristotle's "Organon."
>At least he translated "Peri Hermeneias" and the "Categories"
>(so the Oxford Dict. of the Christian Church, ed. 3) and "Topics"
>and "Sophistici elenchi" (so OCD3).  The ODCC3 says that "his
>trs. of works of Aristotle are included in the relevant vols.
>of 'Aristoteles Latinus'."

If memory serves me, the only works of Aristotle's that Boethius actually 
translated (adding extensive commentaries that probably go back directly to 
Porphyry or Iamblich, not, to be sure, to Ammonius) are the Categories and 
de interpretatione, with Porphyry's Isagoge as an Introduction to the 
Categories and the Organon in general.  This is the first part of the 
Neoplatonic Curriculum Platonicum that we can grasp in Ammonius' and his 
school's introductions but probably goes back to Proclus (on this point, 
see Westerink, I. Hadot etc.).  Boethius did treat Aristotelian 
syllogistics, as well, but he did not translate the first Analytics; 
instead, he exposed Aristotle's theory in his own works De syllogogismo 
categorico and De syllogismo hypothetico.  When sometimes he is cited in 
connection with the Topics, his commentary on Ciceros (!) Topica is what is 
referred to.  I am not aware of a translation of the Sophistici Elenchi but 
seem to remember he wrote a work on invalid (appearing) syllogisms (like de 
syll. categ./hypoth. that only follow, but do not translate the Analyt.), 
but being away from my books I should not dare take that on my oath now.

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