Robert Sharples

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Robert Sharples is affiliated with the following schools: University College London, University of Oxford

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PhD Classical Philology University of Oxford
Masters Classics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Professor Robert William Sharples was a British educator and authority on ancient Greek philosophy. He was a member of the department of Greek and Latin at University College London for over 30 years, and won international distinction for his work in ancient philosophy, especially physics and in the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle. His pioneering interest in previously under-studied figures such as Alexander of Aphrodisias led the way in the field.

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Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence (2 vols) (1993) (112)
Aristotle's psychology (1991) (91)
The Cambridge history of Hellenistic philosophy (2002) (70)
Alexander of Aphrodisias: Scholasticism and Innovation (1987) (64)
Nemesius On the Nature of Man (2008) (55)
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Divine Providence: Two Problems (1982) (35)
Aspasius: The Earliest Extant Commentary on Aristotles's Ethics (1999) (31)
‘But Why has my Spirit Spoken with me thus?’: Homeric Decision-Making (1983) (28)
On Body, Soul and Generation in Alexander of Aphrodisias (1994) (27)
Cicero's Republic and Greek Political Theory1 (1986) (25)
Theophrastus of Eresus (1994) (24)
Pseudo-Aristoteles (Pseudo-Alexander) Supplementa Problematorum: A New Edition of the Greek Text, with Introduction and Annotated Translation (2006) (24)
More on Plato, Meno 82c2-31 (1989) (19)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (2010) (18)
Nemesius of Emesa and Some Theories of Divine Providence (1983) (17)
Theophrastus of Eresus: On Sweat, on Dizziness and on Fatigue (2002) (17)
Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen (2002) (16)
Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul (2004) (15)
Alexander of Aphrodisias on universals: Two problematic texts (2005) (15)
Plato on Democracy and Expertise (1994) (14)
On Fire in Heraclitus and in Zeno of Citium (1984) (14)
Alexander of Aphrodisias on fate : text, translation, and commentary (1983) (14)
Greek and Roman philosophy 100 BC - 200 AD (2007) (13)
ARISTOTELIAN THEOLOGY AFTER ARISTOTLE (2001) (11)
The Peripatetic School (1999) (11)
Aristotelian and Stoic Conceptions of Necessity in the De Fato of Alexander of Aphrodisias (1975) (11)
The Stoic Arguments for the Existence and Providence of the GodsA Physical Interpretation of the Universe: The Doctrines of Zeno the Stoic (1976) (11)
THREEFOLD PROVIDENCE: THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF A DOCTRINE (2003) (11)
Fate, prescience and free will (2009) (10)
Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Time (1982) (10)
Soft Determinism and Freedom in Early Stoicism (1986) (9)
AMBIGUITY AND OPPOSITION: ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS, ETHICAL PROBLEMS 11 (1985) (9)
The unity of the virtues in Aristotle, in Alexander of Aphrodisias, and in the Byzantine commentators (2000) (9)
The school of Alexander (2008) (9)
Some Thoughts on Aristotelian Form: With Special Reference to Metaphysics Z 8 (2005) (8)
IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS INSCRIPTION (2005) (8)
On being a "tóde ti" in Aristotle and Alexander (1999) (7)
Alexander of Aphrodisias, De Intellectu 110.4: ‘I Heard this from Aristotle’. A modest proposal (2000) (7)
On the nature of man (2008) (7)
Theophrastus on fungi: inaccurate citations in Athenaeus (1983) (7)
Scepticism or Platonism (1985) (7)
Aristotle on the generation of animals. A philosophical study (1984) (7)
Particulars in Greek philosophy : the seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (2010) (6)
Alexander of Aphrodisias, De Fato: some Parallels (1978) (6)
Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity (2019) (5)
Modern Thinkers and Ancient Thinkers: The Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lectures at University College London, 1981-1991 (1993) (5)
Whose Aristotle?, whose Aristotelianism? (2001) (5)
Snow Blindness and Underground Fish-Migration: Two More Notes on Theophrastus (1988) (5)
Theophrastus as philosopher and Aristotelian (1998) (5)
An Ancient Dialogue on Possibility; Alexander of Aphrodisias, Quaestio 1.4. (1982) (5)
Some Medieval and Renaissance Citations of Theophrastus (1984) (5)
Necessity in the stoic doctrine of fate (1981) (5)
Habent sua fata libelli: Aristotle’s Categories in the first century BC (2008) (5)
Theophrastean studies : on natural science, physics and metaphysics, ethics, religion, and rhetoric (1988) (5)
Strato of Lampsacus: The Sources, Texts and Translations (2017) (5)
Pseudo-Alexander on Aristotle Metaphysics Lambda (2003) (4)
Modern Thinkers and Ancient Thinkers (1993) (4)
Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems (1990) (4)
PLATO, PLOTINUS, AND EVIL* (1994) (4)
Alexander of Aphrodisias and the end of Aristotelian Theology (2002) (4)
Natural Philosophy in the Peripatos after Strato (2006) (4)
The sufficiency of virtue for happiness: not so easily overturned?1 (2001) (4)
EPICURUS, CARNEADES, AND THE ATOMIC SWERVE* (1993) (3)
PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL SCIENCE (1998) (3)
Eudemus' Physics: Change, Place and Time (2002) (3)
Peripatetics on soul and intellect (2007) (3)
The Stoic background to the Middle Platonist discussion of Fate (2007) (3)
“IF WHAT IS EARLIER, THEN OF NECESSITY WHAT IS LATER”?: SOME ANCIENT DISCUSSIONS OF ARISTOTLE, DE GENERATIONE ET CORRUPTIONE 2.11 (1979) (3)
RESPONSIBILITY, CHANCE AND NOT - BEING (1975) (3)
Dicaearchus on the soul and on divination (2001) (3)
The Problem of the Sources (2012) (2)
THEOPHRASTUS ON THE HEAVENS (1985) (2)
RESPONSIBILITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE THAN ONE COURSE OF ACTION: A NOTE ON ARISTOTLE DE CAELO II.12 (1976) (2)
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 5: Sources on Biology (Human Physiology, Living Creatures, Botany: Texts 328-435) (1994) (2)
Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence. Commentary, Volume 5. Sources on Biology : Texts 328-435 (1997) (2)
Common to Body and Soul: Peripatetic Approaches after Aristotle (2006) (2)
Aspasius on Eudaimonia (1999) (2)
Theophrastus, On Dizziness (2003) (2)
THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD:: WHAT HAPPENED TO HYLOMORPHISM? (2010) (2)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Soul (2010) (2)
On fate (De fato) . &, The Consolation of philosophy (Philosophiae consolationis) IV. 5-7, V (1991) (2)
Philo and post-Aristotelian Peripatetics (2008) (2)
Alexander of Aphrodisias on the nature and location of vision (2005) (2)
ARISTOTLE AND NECESSITY: A CLARIFICATION (1984) (2)
An Aristotelian Commentator on the Naturalness of Justice (2005) (1)
A glossary attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias (2000) (1)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: People (2010) (1)
Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence. Commentary Vol. 3.1, Sources on Physics (1998) (1)
Philosophy for life (2006) (1)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: A Hellenistic account of Aristotle’s philosophy (2010) (1)
Aristotle's exoteric and esoteric works: summaries and commentaries (2007) (1)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Bodily and external goods and happiness (2010) (1)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Introduction (2010) (1)
ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS‘ SECOND TREATMENT OF FATE?DE ANIMA LIBRI MANTISSA, pp. 179–186 BRUNS1 (1980) (1)
XXXII — PERIPATETICS ON FATE AND PROVIDENCE (2007) (1)
(J.) Gentzler Ed. Method in ancient philosophy . Oxford UP, 1998. Pp. ix + 398. 0198235712. (1999) (1)
Diogenes (6) Laertius (2016) (1)
Epicurus in Lycia: the Second-Century World of Diogenes of Oenoanda. P Gordon (1998) (1)
Evidence for Theophrastus On Hair, On Secretion, On Wine and Olive Oil? (2004) (1)
Don't drown the dog: practical and safe approaches to rehabilitation. (2009) (1)
Review: The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism (2006) (1)
The Purpose of the Natural World: Aristotle’s Followers and Interpreters (2017) (1)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An account of Peripatetic ethics (2010) (1)
Alexander of Aphrodisias Quaestio 2.21: A Question of Authenticity (2000) (1)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Individuals (2010) (1)
Aristotle of Stagira (2001) (0)
TITLES OF BOOKS (1998) (0)
TITLES OF ANCIENT WORKS (OTHER THAN THOSE BY THEOPHRASTUS) REFERRED TO IN THE TEXTS (1998) (0)
INDICES TO THE COMMENTARY (1994) (0)
Epicurus in Lycia (1998) (0)
Sotion (1), of Alexandria (1), Peripatetic (2016) (0)
Aspasius, c. 100–50 CE (2015) (0)
Alexander (14), of Aphrodisias, commentator on Aristotle (2015) (0)
Peripatetics on fate and providence (2007) (0)
ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS: WHAT IS A MANTISSA?* (2004) (0)
Science, Philosophy and Human Life in the Ancient World (2000) (0)
A Reply to Professor Blank (1989) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Commentaries (2010) (0)
INDEX OF IMPORTANT WORDS OCCURRING IN ON DIZZINESS (2002) (0)
Quaestiones 1.1-2.15 (1992) (0)
NEMESIUS OF EMESA AND SOME THEORIES OF (2016) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Sensation (2010) (0)
James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001 (2001) (0)
PERSONS AND PLACES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXTS (1998) (0)
PRINCIPAL TERMS: ARABIC (1998) (0)
Ṭabarī: Abū Jaҁfar Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥāsib al-Ṭabarī (2014) (0)
Particulars in Greek Philosophy (2009) (0)
AristotleAristotle and His Philosophy (1984) (0)
Galen. Galen on language and ambiguity: an English translation of Galen's ‘De Captionibus (On fallacies)’ with introduction, text and commentary . By R. B. Edlow. (Philosophia antiqua, 31.) Leiden: Brill. 1977. Pp. xiii + 143. Fl. 44. (1978) (0)
(G. E. L.) Owen Language and logos: studies in ancient Greek philosophy presented to G. E. L. Owen. Ed. M. Schofield and M. C. Nussbaum. Cambridge etc.: University Press. 1982. Pp. xiii + 359. £27.50. (1983) (0)
COMMENTARIES ON THE METAPHYSICS (2003) (0)
R. Melville (trans.): Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe (with introduction and notes by D. and P. Fowler). Pp. xxxiv + 275. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19815097-0. (2001) (0)
A Collection of the Fragments with Introduction and Commentary (1978) (0)
ALEXANDER ON PHYSICS 2.9 (2012) (0)
How Can I Be Happy (2014) (0)
THE ETERNITY OF THE UNIVERSE (1998) (0)
Stoicism - by John Sellars (2007) (0)
INDICES TO THE TEXTS (1994) (0)
SALT AND SODA (1998) (0)
PRINCIPAL TERMS: LATIN (1998) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Intellect (2010) (0)
(M.) Graver Stoicism and Emotion . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x + 289. £22/$37.50. 9780226305578. (2010) (0)
Articles on Aristotle (1993) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: God and providence (2010) (0)
TEXTS DISCUSSED OR CITED (1998) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Generation (2010) (0)
Bion of Borysthenes. A collection of the fragments with introduction and commentary . By J. F. Kindstrand. (Studia graeca Upsaliensia, 11.) Uppsala: The University. 1976. Pp. xxii + 310. Price not stated. [Distributed by: Almqvist & Wiksell International.] (1978) (0)
Introduction: Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity (2019) (0)
Some problems in Lucretius' account of vision 1 (2002) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Bibliography (2010) (0)
J.H. Lesher, The Greek Philosophers: selected Greek texts from the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle, London: Bristol Classical Press, 1998 (1999) (0)
“Praxiphanes of Rhodes held the same opinions as Theophrastus” (Epiphanius, De fide 9.38) (2018) (0)
Early Stoic Psychology and Ethics (1986) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Theory of knowledge (2010) (0)
XXXV — PERIPATETICS ON HAPPINESS (2007) (0)
Sotion (2), Peripatetic (2016) (0)
Notices of Books (2002) (0)
M. E. Stone, M. E. Shirinian: Pseudo-Zeno: Anonymous Philosophical Treatise. Pp. xiv + 254. Leiden, Boston, and Cologne: Brill, 2000. Cased, $85. ISBN: 90-04-11524-2. (2001) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Ontology (2010) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Preface (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
The Paradox of Future Truth (1987) (0)
Alexander Aphrodisiensis, De anima libri mantissa : A New Edition of the Greek Text with Introduction and Commentary (2015) (0)
Greek and Roman Philosophy 100BC-200AD (2 vols) (2007) (0)
GENERAL SUBJECT INDEX (1998) (0)
(F. H.) Sandbach The Stoics. (Ancient culture and society.) London: Chatto & Windus. 1975. Pp. 190. £3·25 (bound), £1·75 (unbound). (1976) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The eternity of the world (2010) (0)
Peripatetics on Happiness (2007) (0)
RHETORIC AND POETICS (1992) (0)
K. Algra, J. Barnes, J. Mansfeld, M. Schofield, eds. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (2002) (0)
Aristotle's Modal Concepts (1983) (0)
THE TREATISE IN OUTLINE (2003) (0)
Essays in Ancient Philosophy (1990) (0)
Review Discussion: Accessible Hellenistic PhilosophyThe Hellenistic Philosophers (1990) (0)
PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA: A SERIES OF STUDIES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY (1994) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Philosophy and rhetoric (2010) (0)
Plato Republic 10. With trans, and comm. by S. Halliwell. (Classical texts.) Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1988. Pp. viii + 197. £28.00 (bound), £9.95 (paper). (1990) (0)
(R.) Sorabji Necessity, cause and blame: perspectives on Aristotle's theory. London: Duckworth. 1980. Pp. xvi + 326, [1] plate. £24.00. (1983) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The Categories (2010) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Logic (2010) (0)
Comments on Professor Wolenski’s paper (2005) (0)
George Briscoe Kerferd (1915-1998) (2004) (0)
2. Relations between the MSS (2006) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The primary natural things (2010) (0)
CP Completed (1992) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: On Interpretation (2010) (0)
Perspectives on Greek Philosophy S.V. Keeling Memorial Lectures in Ancient Philosophy, 1992-2002 (2017) (0)
R. Dobbin, Epictetus: Discourses, book 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 (1999) (0)
MOTION AND CHANGE (1998) (0)
(J. M.) Rist Ed. The Stoics. (Major thinkers, 1.) Berkeley etc.: University of California Press. 1978. Pp. viii + 295. £12.50 (bound), £3.25 (paper). (1980) (0)
More on Anamnesis in the Meno (1999) (0)
Some problems in the theory of vision in De Rerum Natura 4 (2002) (0)
Helen S. Lang, The Order of Nature in Aristolle's Physics: Place and the Elements (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xii + 324 pp. £ 40.00 ISBN 0 521 62453 3 (1999) (0)
3. Principles adopted in editing and apparatus (2006) (0)
H. Lang, The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 (1999) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The nature of time and place (2010) (0)
XXVI — ARISTOTLE'S EXOTERIC AND ESOTERIC WORKS: SUMMARIES AND COMMENTARIES1 (2007) (0)
SUBLUNARY REGION: ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES (1998) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Fate, choice and what depends on us (2010) (0)
INDEX OF IMPORTANT WORDS OCCURRING IN ON FATIGUE (2003) (0)
Index Of Passages Cited (2010) (0)
“Unjointed Masses”: a note on Heraclides’ physical theory. (2009) (0)
Particulars in Greek Philosophy (edited book) (2009) (0)
J. Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 (1999) (0)
EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES (1998) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The heavens (2010) (0)
Daniel N. Robinson, Aristotle's psychology , New York, Columbia University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 144, $28.00. (1991) (0)
Joannes Morsink, Aristotle on the generation of animals. A philosophical study , Washington DC, University Press of America; London, Eurospan, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 184, £20.75 (£9.75 paperback). (1984) (0)
1. The texts and their attribution (2006) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The rediscovery of Aristotle’s works? (2010) (0)
On sweat ; On dizziness ; and, On fatigue (2003) (0)
(D.) Bostock Plato's Phaedo . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. x + 225. £22.50 (bound), £9.95 (paper). - (M. C.) Stokes Plato's Socratic conversations: drama and dialectic in three dialogues . London: Athlone Press, 1986. Pp. xiii + 520. £28.00. (1989) (0)
Progetto Ηρακλ ς. Banca-Dati Bibliografici del Mondo Antico . Pp. 73; facing English and Italian; numerous diagrams; one program disk; one data disk. Rome: ‘L'Erma’ di Bretschneider, 1994. (1995) (0)
(J.) Barnes Aristotle. (Past masters.) Oxford, etc.: University Press. 1982. Pp. [V] + 101. £6.95 (bound), £1.50 (paper).(A.) Edel Aristotle and his philosophy. London: Croom Helm. 1982. Pp. xii + 479. £14.95. (1984) (0)
Notices of Books (1972) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: Emotions (2010) (0)
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: The starting-point and parts of philosophy (2010) (0)
G.R. Boys-Stones, Post-Hellenistic Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 (2003) (0)
Review Discussion: Accessible Hellenistic philosophy (1990) (0)
XXXIII — PERIPATETICS ON SOUL AND INTELLECT (2007) (0)
PRINCIPAL TERMS: GREEK (1998) (0)
INDEX OF THEOPHRASTEAN TEX1S EITHER PRINTED OR ENTERED IN THE APPARATUS OR IN A SEPARATE LIST (1992) (0)
INDEX OF IMPORTANT WORDS OCCURRING IN ON SWEAT (2002) (0)
Dominic J. O'Meara (ed.). Review of Neoplatonism and Christian Thought . (Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, vol. III.) Pp. xviii + 297. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.) Cloth $39.00, paper $12.95. (1984) (0)

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