Welcome to the website of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project.
Editor:
  • ​Professor Michael Griffin (UBC, Vancouver)

Founding Editor:
  • Professor Richard Sorabji (KCL, London/Wolfson College, Oxford)

Associate Editors:
  • Professor Peter Adamson (LMU, Munich/KCL, London)
  • Professor Richard McKirahan (Pomona College, California)
  • Dr John Sellars (Royal Holloway, London/KCL, London)

Assistant Editor: 
  • Dr Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga (UBC, Vancouver/Wolfson College, Oxford)

The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project has since 1987 published over 100 volumes of translations of late ancient philosophical texts into English, usually for the first time. Based at King’s College London for over 25 years, the project now also has collaborating editors located in multiple institutions.
  • "A truly breathtaking achievement, with few parallels in the history of scholarly endeavour" (David Sedley, The Times Literary Supplement)
  • "One of the great scholarly achievements of our time" (Christopher Taylor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy)
  • "The Greek commentators are now being read around the world with an intensity of interest they have not received since they were first written" (Myles Burnyeat, Classical Association News)
  • "A scholarly marvel … A massive scholarly endeavour of the highest importance. For such an undertaking to be commissioned in this day and age is the stuff of which legends are made" (Peter Jones, The Times)
  • "The situation has changed radically during the last three decades, mostly thanks to Sorabji's projects. The huge corpus of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca is now intensively studied and the philosophy of the commentators is widely recognized as a crucial aspect of ancient thought" (Riccardo Chiaradonna and Marwan Rashed, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy)
  • "Without any doubt the most important event of recent decades in the study of Arabic philosophy" (Ahmad Hasnaoui, CNRS, Paris)