"Nicolas le Péripatéticien, dit le Damascène: notes pour une étude"

[Machine translation]The article discusses the attribution of the compendium De Philosophia Aristotelis to the historian Nicola Damasceno, who lived in the first century BC). It is current but not proven, nor probable. Instead, there is reason to believe that the compendium is the work of a peripatetic named Nicholas, who lived around the fourth century AD. Therefore, a test of interest in and knowledge of a large part of Aristotle's corpus from the first century BC or at the beginning of the first century AD disappears, as does the proof of the existence of the title and of the work 'Metaphysics' (known by the author of the compendium) at the same time. On the other hand, the idea that the activity of the peripatetic school would stop with Alessandro di Aphrodisia, and that Themistius in the fourth century would be a sort of exception, is weakened by the importance of this new example. In fact, an Aristotelian culture must have still been alive at the time of Themistius and Nicholas: at this time, fundamental work tools are produced and included in use both for school educational activities and for the transmission of Aristotle's philosophy to subsequent periods.