Table of Contents

Preface
Notes on Abbreviations, Usage, Transliteration
Introduction
Biography and Work Lists [Biogr.]
Section One: God and Eternity
On First Philosophy [First Phil.]
Three Texts against the Infinity of the World [Against Infinity]
On the True Agent [True Agent]
Against the Trinity [Against Trinity]
Section Two: The Soul and the Mind
On the Intellect [Intellect]
On Recollection [Recollection]
That There Are Incorporeal Substances [Incorp. Subst.]
Discourse on the Soul [Discourse Soul]
A Concise and Brief Statement About the Soul [Concise Soul]
On the Quiddity of Sleep and Dreams [Sleep Dreams]
Two Texts on Colour [Colour]
Section Three: The Cosmos
On the Proximate, Agent Cause of Generation and Corruption [Prox. Agent Cause]
The Prostration of the Outermost Body [Prostration]
On the Nature of the Celestial Sphere [Celestial Sphere]
On Why the Ancients Related the Five Geometric Shapes to the Elements [Five Geometric Shapes]
Why the Higher Atmosphere is Cold [Higher Atmosphere]
On Rays [Rays]
Section Four: Ethics
On Dispelling Sorrows [Dispelling Sorrows]
The Sayings of Socrates [Sayings Socrates]
Section Five: Systematising Philosophy
On the Quantity of Aristotle's Books [Aristotle's Books]
On the Definitions and Descriptions of Things [Definitions]
On the Five Essences [Five Essences]
Three Fragments [Fragments]

About the Author

Peter E. Pormann studied Classics, Islamic Studies, and French at the universities of Paris (Sorbonne), Hamburg, Tübingen, Leiden, and Oxford. He obtained his D.Phil. in Classical Languages Literature from the University of Oxford in 2002; his thesis won the Hellenic Foundation's 2003 Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom, in the Byzantine/Medieval History category. After being a Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at Merton College,
Oxford, and a Frances A. Yates Long-Term Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, London, he moved to the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick as a Wellcome Trust
University Award holder. Recent publications include Rufus of Ephesus' On Melancholy, Tübingen 2008 and, with E. Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine, Edinburgh 2007. The latter won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2008. He is currently Wellcome Trust Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Peter Adamson received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 2000, and has
since held a position in Philosophy at King's College London. His area of interest is ancient and medieval philosophy, in particular Neoplatonism and the reception of Greek thought in Arabic. He is currently Professor of
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London.