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the Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at King's College London and the

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Today's episode will be an interview about Byzantine commentaries on Aristotle with Katerina Iero Diacono, who is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Athens, and Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Athens and Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the

Department of the University of Geneva. Hi Katarina.

Hello.

Okay, so after that impressive affiliation, we're ready to start talking about Byzantine philosophy.

Which is not going to be very impressive.

I don't say that. We want people to keep listening. Well we're going to be focusing on something in particular, which is philosophical

commentaries in the Vizman tradition and in particular commentaries on Aristotle.

Maybe you could start out by just saying who the major commentators on Aristotle were in the Byzantine tradition.

Yes, of course.

The first time that we have commentaries in Byzantine times, similar to the commentaries that we have commentaries in Byzantine times similar to the commentaries that we find in late

antiquity. For example, Alexander Fauphardiza's commentaries or Ammonias or Ammonias or Philoponus is in the 12th century and I'm thinking of the commentaries written by Eustratus of Nicia and Michael of Ephesus.

Before that we don't really have this kind of detailed running commentaries, but we do have

scolia. So we need to think of commentaries in Byzantine times not only as long detailed commentaries, but also

either scholarly the margins or paraphrases or introductions to Aristotelian philosophy or small essays on specific topics.

So if we have this broader notion of a commentary, then we can think of three different periods in Byzantine times during which

scholars would comment on Aristotle. And the first period is the period right after I comocles

so the ninth and the tenth century and we call it usually the Byzantine

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