ISBN-13: 9783110196443 / Starogrecki / Twarda / 2008 / 275 str.
ISBN-13: 9783110196443 / Starogrecki / Twarda / 2008 / 275 str.
R. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The Mantissa is a collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise On the Soul by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (c.200 AD). The collection includes discussion of a range of topics, among them the nature of soul and intellect, theories of how seeing takes place, issues in ethics, and the nature of fate.