The Dark Sphinx from Stagira: Mediating, Interpreting, and  Contesting Aristotle in the Greek Middle Ages

Michele Trizio (Bari) will be giving this talk as part of the Classics Department Research Seminar Series. All welcome!

Please note the start time of 5 p.m., which is later than usual

 Abstract

Though dependent on late antique sources, the Byzantine reception of Aristotle involves a complex series of authorial and textual practices which, at least in part, the Byzantines developed independently from the classical heritage. In my presentation I will sketch the history of the Aristotelian tradition in the Greek Middle Ages, of its supporters and its enemies