ARISTOTLE AND HIS INFLUENCE: Aristotelismo. (Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi. Mappe 65.) Pp. x + 150. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2017. Paper, €18. ISBN: 978-88-06-23112-5

• Published in: The Classical Review Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 369 - 371
• Main Author: Castelli, Laura M
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.10.2018
• Subjects: Age; Alexander of Aphrodisias; Aristophanes (450?-388? BC); Familiarity; Greek literature; Hellenistic; Philosophers; Philosophy; Plutarch (46?-120?); Traditions; Byzantium
• DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X18001178
• ISSN: 0009-840X

[...]Chapter 5 focuses on the difficulties in identifying a genuine Aristotle independently of the developments of Aristotelianism. The first problem consists in the difficulty of drawing a neat boundary between cases in which direct acquaintance with Aristotle's texts can be ascertained and cases in which a rather indirect and more general familiarity with themes or arguments characteristic of Aristotelian philosophy resounds in the debates among philosophers or intellectuals of a certain milieu. [...]perhaps more radically, there is an issue of the extent to which it is legitimate to speak of a direct influence of Aristotle and his philosophy on certain philosophical debates when it is not possible to identify a textual source for the theses or arguments that are supposed to be regarded as ‘Aristotelian’.