Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
The Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG ) are the basic scientific edition of the ancient and late ancient Greek comments on the writings of the philosopher Aristotle. It was commissioned by the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, edited by Hermann Diels numerous philologists.
History
The CAG was the great Aristotle Complete Edition of the Berlin Academy advance their volumes existed since 1836 and was completed with the publication of the indices in 1870. To make the impact and reception of Aristotelian philosophy detectable, the numerous ancient and Byzantine comments had to be published in critical editions. 1874 presented the philosopher Eduard Zeller in the Academy the request, receive a corresponding edition project. The first edition should be based on more accurate comparison of the manuscripts.
The Academy accepted the proposal and entrusted Zeller and the members Hermann Bonitz and John Vahlen the oversight of the company. As editor of the philologist Adolf Torstrik was determined, however, in 1877, died. After his death, Hermann Diels took over the task. Under his leadership, published from 1882 to 1909, the 23 volumes of the company in part 51 volumes published by Georg Reimer. The originally planned volumes 24 and 25, which should include unexplained authorship the comments of the Byzantine Metropolitan Leo Magentinus and various comments were not realized.
The text-critical editions of CAG make often is Editiones principes of the respective texts and are often not replaced by more recent editions.
Supplement, sequel, translation
The CAG were supplemented during the project phase by the Supplementum Aristotelicum into six volumes. Continued them since 2007 Another Edition by the commentaries on Aristotle until the Byzantine period in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina ( CAGB ), by the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences under the direction of Dieter Harlfinger, Christof Rapp, Marwan Rashed and Diether R. Reinsch be issued.
A supplement to a comment from Alexander was found by Emma Gannagé in an Arab work. It has four chapters ( 2,2-5 ) of the lost commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's About identified and decay in an Arabic translation of the alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyān from the 8th century and presented for the first time in a translation. Gannagé able to show that Alexander in this comment trying to put together Aristotle's doctrine of the change of the substance and its physics to a unified theory.
A large number of these comments has now been translated in the context of the initiated and managed Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project by Richard Sorabji ( ACA) into English.