 Surprisingly, and unexpectedly for readers familiar with Aristotle’s Physics and De caelo, which are both rather technical in character, Simplicius’ comments time and again betray a deeply religious or spiritual mindset. In the tradition of Athenian Neoplatonism, where religious and ritual elements were crucial ingredients of philosophy, Simplicius’ Platonisation of Aristotle, as it were, also entails a spiritualisation of Aristotle’s works.