Aristotle's Metaphysics

Aristotle never uses the word metaphysics, but this branch of philosophy has been taken to include more or less what is covered in aristotelian work. If it was andronichus who assembled unrelated texts to create the metaphysics as we have it to day, then he should get much of the credit or blame for deciding what is and is not included in that discipline. Whatever the extent of his editorial activity, andronicus certainly represents a surge of interest in aristotle in the first century b c. Even admirers of aristotle, like cicero, admitted that the esoteric treatises were very difficult.