Böcker av Dimitri Gutas

A critical edition based on the three known manuscripts, and translation of a gnomologium entitled Mukhtar min kalam al-hukama' al-arba`a, which contains sayings ascribed to Pythgagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. A paperback reprint of the original 1975 book, with a new Foreword, and with errata and corrections.

The volume contains new editions of two brief scientific essays-On Fish and Afeteoro/o^y-accompanied by translations and commentary.

This text profiles the Greek philosophers of the Arabic tradition. Topics covered include pre-Platonian philosophy in Arabic, Plato's symposium in the Arabic tradition, and antiquity and the interface between Greek and Arabic.

Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School

Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages.