Abstract This article sets out to explore different roles that the mention of zoophytes can play into some texts Plato, Aristotle and byzantine commentators. Thus, staging life marine lung in Philebus represents a possible horizon regression be kept mind, not, as John Philopon, stage man's formation will necessarily surpassed. For latter, for Aristotle, evoking is way resolving question frontie...

N.B.: For the references, please see Selected Bibliography on Aristotle's Theory of Categorical Syllogism "When modem logicians in the 1920s and 1930s first turned their attention to the problem of understanding Aristotle’s contribution to logic in modern terms, they were guided both by the Frege-Russell conception of logic as formal ontology and at the same time by a desire to protect Aristotl...

The aim of this essay is to shed light on three related Peripatetic texts that have received little scholarly attention: a passage in Aristotle’s Historia animalium I 11, the nose, which mentions passing «sneezing […] alone breaths (πνευμάτων) sign prophetic and sacred»; and, two chapters pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata physica XXXIII, ask attempt answer question: why sneezing (thought be) sacred?...