Editing Simplicius of Cilicia (section)

==== Byzantine Empire ====
[[File:Simplicius of Cilicia, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics III 518,5–30.jpg|thumb|A page of the copy of Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's ''Physics'' made by Theodora Rhaulaina between 1261 and 1282. Moscow, State Historical Museum, Codex 3649, fol. 221r.]]
The Byzantine princess Theodora Rhaulaina, a niece of Emperor [[Michael VIII Palaiologos|Michael VIII]], copied the ''Physics'' commentary of Simplicius in the period 1261–1282. This text-critical [[Codex]] has been preserved and is now in the [[State Historical Museum (Moscow)|Historical Museum]] in Moscow.<ref>[[Dieter Harlfinger]]: ''Some aspects of the handwritten tradition of the physics commentary of Simplicius''. In: Ilsetraut Hadot (ed.): '' Simplicius. Sa vie, son œuvre, sa survie.'' Berlin 1987, pp. 267–286, here: 267 f.</ref> The Byzantine philosopher [[Georgios Gemistos Plethon]] († 1452), a Platonist and opponent of Aristotelianism, disapproved of Simplicius' harmonization of Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy. He claimed that Simplicius only undertook this in order to favorably contrast an alleged unity among the pagan philosophers with the disputes among the Christians. However, he did not present anything convincing to support this claim.<ref>François Masai: ''Pléthon et le platonisme de Mistra.'' Paris 1956, p. 183 f.</ref>