The Textual History of Aristotle

On the traditional story, this was the work of the original aristotle completist, a man named andronicus. Andronicus hailed from rhodes but apparently worked in both athens and rome. Supposedly he got hold of these ancient texts of aristotle and produced a ground breaking edition like a collected works. The story has received a sceptical reaction from some modern scholars,. especially jonathan barnes. He pointed out that the temporary loss of aristotle's own books would not explain much unless it was the only copy available, which seems a dubious assumption. Barnes also doubted another long held assumption. Once the aristitelian works came to rome,