(RHODES, a Peripatetic philosopher, who is reckoned as the tenth of
Aristotle's successors, was at the head of the Peripatetic school at Rome, about in Aristot. Categ. p. 8a., ed.
Ald.) We know little more of the life of Andronicus, but he is of special interest in the
history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch (vit. Plotin. 100.24; Boethius, ad Aristot. de
Interpret. p. 292, ed. Basil. 1570.) The arrangement which Andronicus made of
Aristotle's writings seems to be the one which forms the basis of our present editions ; and
we are probably indebted to him for the preservation of a large number of Aristotle's
works.
Andronicus wrote a work upon Aristotle, the fifth book of which contained a complete list of the philosopher's writings, and he also wrote commentaries upon the Physics, Ethics, and Categories. None of these works is extant, for the paraphrase of the Nicomachean Ethics, which is ascribed to Andronicus of Rhodes, was written by some one else, and may have been the work of Andronicus Callistus of Thessalonica, who was professor at Rome, Bologna, Florence, and Paris, in the latter half of the fifteenth century.
Andronicus Callistus was the author of the work
The
The two works were printed at
Stahr, Aristotelia, ii. p. 129.