 this seems unlikely. Rather, his underlying incentive seems to be to preserve as much original material (from Aristotle, his predecessors, and his commentators) as possible and to present it in a way that brings the unity of the Hellenic tradition to the fore. This would explain why Simplicius continuously reminds his readers not only of the harmony (sumphônia) between Plato and Aristotle, with Aristotle as a loyal member of the Platonic tradition, but also the continuity of Aristotle with the Presocratics, especially the Pythagoreans and the Eleatics. There are several indications in Simplicius’ collective text that he is addressing readers of “considerable sophistication” (Bowen 2013: 5) and that the target audience, as should be suspected given his use of the first person plural, is 