• Contact

  • Newsletter

  • About us

  • Delivery options

  • Prospero Book Market Podcast

  • Michael of Ephesus: On Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 10 with Themistius: On Virtue

    Michael of Ephesus: On Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 10 with Themistius: On Virtue by Wilberding, James; Trompeter, Julia; Rigolio, Alberto;

    Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle;

      • GET 20% OFF

      • The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
      • Publisher's listprice GBP 32.99
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        15 760 Ft (15 010 Ft + 5% VAT)
      • Discount 20% (cc. 3 152 Ft off)
      • Discounted price 12 608 Ft (12 008 Ft + 5% VAT)

    15 760 Ft

    db

    Availability

    printed on demand

    Why don't you give exact delivery time?

    Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.

    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 25 June 2020
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350170919
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 232x150x20 mm
    • Weight 460 g
    • Language English
    • 65

    Categories

    Long description:

    The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs.

    The first is Michael of Ephesus' 12th-century commentary on Book 10 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, written (alongside his commentaries on Books 5 and 9) to fill gaps in the Neoplatonists' commentaries from the 6th century. He recognizes that lives of practicality and philosophy may be combined, and gives his own account of the superiority of the contemplative.

    The second is Themistius' text On Virtue, written in the 4th century AD. He was an important teacher and commentator on Aristotle, an orator and leading civil servant in Constantinople. His philosophical oration is here argued to be written in support of the Emperor Julian's insistence against the misuse of free speech by a Cynic Heraclius, who had satirised him. Julian had previously criticised Themistius but here he combines his political and philosophical roles in seeking to mend relations with his former pupil.

    More

    Table of Contents:

    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Conventions

    Translation

    Notes

    Bibliography

    English-Greek Glossary
    Greek-English Index
    Subject Index

    More