The object of this thesis is a critical edition of a Byzantine paraphrase to an Anonymous Commentary of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos (Anon. in Ptol.). The thesis starts with a historic chapter that describes the role of Ptolemy ...

The present study is motivated by the interest for the famous and complex section of the Philebus which alludes to the so-called gift of the gods, consisting in the revelation that "the things that are said to always are ...