Greek–Latin Philosophical Interaction

Sten Ebbesen is from the Department of Greek and Latin at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Contents: Preface; The Greek under the Latin and the Latin under the Greek; Greek-Latin philosophical interaction; The odyssey of semantics from the Stoa to Buridan; The chimera's diary - edited by Sten Ebbesen; Where were the stoics in the late Middle Ages?; Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the 12th and 13th centuries; Late-ancient ancestors of Medieval philosophical commentaries; Boethius on Aristotle; Boethius on the metaphysics of words; Western and Byzantine approaches to logic; Greek and Latin medieval logic; Philoponus, 'Alexander' and the origins of medieval logic; Analysing syllogisms or anonymous Aurelianensis III - the (presumably) earliest extant Latin commentary on the prior analytics, and its Greek model; Fragments of 'Alexander's' commentaries on Analytica Posteriora and Sophistici Elenchi; Bibliography; Indexes.