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Acknowledgements This book is a slightly revised version of my dissertation, which was accepted at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2012. Above all, I would like to thank my three supervisors Jonathan Beere, Ben Morison, and Christof Rapp. My dissertation benefited greatly from working under their guidance and I am most thankful for the generous support they have given me in many different respects both while I was working on this project and afterwards. I was especially fortunate to have had the opportunity to continually work with Ben Morison while on a short stay in Oxford, during several months at Princeton, and – despite being on the other side of the Atlantic – from my desk in Erlangen. Our conversations and his numerous comments and sug- gestions greatly improved my work both in detail and from a broader per- spective and I am very grateful for his support and encouragement. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Friedemann Buddensiek for his constant support over the past few years and for helping me start my inquiry into the priority of locomotion in the first place. Jacob Rosen, in addition to discussing various ideas, read and critiqued an earlier draft of chapter 7 and helped me clarify important points made there. Joshua Crone read the entire work and made many helpful suggestions, for which he has my sincere thanks. I am indebted to many other people for comments and help of various kinds: Andreas Anagnostopoulos, Stephen Hamilton, Hen- drik Lorenz, Marko Malink, Henry Mendell, Roman Rüttinger, Pieter Sjoerd-Hasper, and the audiences at Berlin, Göttingen, Princeton, and Würzburg to whom I had the opportunity to present parts of my work. I wish to thank my fellow doctoral students in the Ancient Philosophy pro- gram in Berlin as well as my colleagues first in Munich and later in Göttin- gen for making my time and work in these places so pleasant. I wrote my dissertation as a doctoral fellow at the Excellence Cluster Topoi in Berlin and am thankful for its generous support. I would also like to thank the editors of this series, in particular Dorothea Frede and Gisela Striker, for accepting my book for publication. I am especially grateful to my wife, Eva Odzuck, for her provocative claims about Aristotle (and other things), continuous support and patience, and much more, from the beginning right to the very end. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for all they have given me. This book is dedicated to them. Erlangen, July 2013 SO ISBN Print: 9783525253069 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647253060 © 2014, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen