ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide a critical assessment of the edition of Eudemus' fragments by Wehrli and, in the process, present some additional material relevant for Eudemus' Physics. It discusses an additional twelve named references to Eudemus in Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics which Wehrli did not print in his edition, although he refers to some of them in unexpected places. The fragments on physics show Eudemus as an exegete and interpreter of Aristotle's Physics, whose main concern is to clarify and systematize. It is generally assumed that these were lecture notes used by Eudemus to teach Aristotle's physics in his own 'school' in Rhodes; this may also explain why Eudemus' comments seem to possess a dogmatic and systematizing tendency. The chapter concludes with some provisional conclusions and some useful material for the future editor, a select bibliography on Eudemus, a list of reviews of Die Schule des Aristoteles vol. VIII, and of textual matters.
