Public Domain Encyclopedia Database

Search the scanned history of knowledge.

Compare encyclopedia entries across editions, inspect page scans, and trace every article back to its source volume.

Limit to sources
5source families
1366article records
1356imported with text

Search results

3 results for “Aspasius”

Results are grouped by encyclopedia. Grouped by encyclopedia. Each record links to article text, topic comparison, and available source evidence.

Source family

Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

3 matches

Aspasius

Britannica 11th

ASPASIUS, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and a prolific commentator on Aristotle. He flourished probably towards the close of the ist century A.D., or perhaps during the reign of Antoninus Pius. His commentaries on the Categories, De Interpretatione, De Sens ...

Vol. 2, pp. 766-766 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Aspasia

Britannica 11th

... not mentioned by Thucydides. In opposition to this view, Wilamowitz-MollcndorfF ASPASIUS— ASPENDUS (Hermes, xxxv. 1900) regards her simply as a courtesan, whose personality would readily become the subject of rumour, favourable or unfavourable. There is a bust ...

Vol. 2, pp. 765-766 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 48.0

Aristotle

Britannica 11th

... e has arisen from a simple misconception, continued in a Scholium attributed to Aspasius, who lived in the 2nd century A.D. Nicomachean means " addressed to Nicomachus," and Eudemian "addressed to Eudemus"; but, as Cicero thought that the Nicomachean Ethics wa ...

Vol. 2, pp. 501-521 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0