Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Text of Aristotle’s Metaphysics CALIFORNIA CLASSICAL STUDIES NUMBER 4 Editorial Board Chair: Donald Mastronarde Editorial Board: Alessandro Barchiesi, Todd Hickey, Emily Mackil, Richard Martin, Robert Morstein-Marx, J. Theodore Peña, Kim Shelton California Classical Studies publishes peer-reviewed long-form scholarship with online open access and print-on-demand availability. The primary aim of the series is to disseminate basic research (editing and analysis of primary materials both textual and physical), data-heavy re- search, and highly specialized research of the kind that is either hard to place with the leading publishers in Classics or extremely expensive for libraries and individuals when produced by a leading academic publisher. In addition to promoting archaeological publications, papyrolog- ical and epigraphic studies, technical textual studies, and the like, the series will also produce selected titles of a more general profile. The startup phase of this project (2013–2015) is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The current volume has been selected by the Editorial Board as the winner of the 2014 CCS competition to identify distinguished work by junior scholars. Also in the series: Number 1: Leslie Kurke, The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy, 2013 Number 2: Edward Courtney, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal, 2013 Number 3: Mark Griffith, Greek Satyr Play: Five Studies, 2015 ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS AND THE TEXT OF ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS Mirjam E. Kotwick CALIFORNIA CLASSICAL STUDIES Berkeley, California © 2016 by Mirjam E. Kotwick. California Classical Studies c/o Department of Classics University of California Berkeley, California 94720–2520 USA http://calclassicalstudies.org email:
[email protected] ISBN 9781939926067 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015953938 CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Sigla and Abbreviations xi 1.