Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems
Textual Studies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 February 2019
- ISBN 9780198834564
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages250 pages
- Size 224x148x22 mm
- Weight 444 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This series of studies focuses on various aspects of Aristotle's Homeric Problems, an oft-neglected work for which the evidence consists mostly of fragments surviving in the margins of medieval manuscripts. Aiming to expand our knowledge of the lost work, it argues persuasively that other sources do exist but have been overlooked.
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This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - comments in the margins of the medieval manuscripts of the Homeric epics, mostly coming from lost commentaries on these epics - though the series of studies presented here puts forward a persuasive case that other sources have been overlooked.
These studies focus on various aspects of the Homeric Problems and are grouped into three parts. The first deals with preliminary issues: the relationship of this lost work to the Homeric scholarship that came before it, and to Aristotle's comments on Homeric scholarship in his extant Poetics; the evidence concerning the possible titles of this work; and a neglected early edition of the fragments. Following on from this, the second part attempts to expand our knowledge of the Homeric Problems through an examination in context of quotations from (or allusions to) Homer in Aristotle's extant works, and specifically in the History of Animals, the Rhetoric, and Poetics 21, while Part Three consists of four studies on select (and in most cases disregarded) fragments. Collectively the chapters support the conclusion that Aristotle in the Homeric Problems aimed to defend Homer against his critics, but not slavishly and without employing allegorical interpretation; within the context of a renewed interest in Aristotle's lost works, the volume as a whole brings much needed illumination to a virtually unknown ancient work involving not one but two giants of the classical world.
...this textual study of a lost work by Aristotle is a valuable contribution to the history of ancient Greek literature and philosophy. Excellent notes and references.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Sources
Copyright Acknowledgements
Part 1: Preliminary Studies
Pre-Aristotelian Homeric Scholarship and Aristotle's Poetics 25
The Titles (and Subtitles) of Aristotle's Lost Work on Homer
A Reappraisal of Heitz
Part 2: Studies Based on Aristotle's Extant Works
The Evidence from the History of Animals
The Evidence from the Rhetoric
The Evidence from Poetics 21
Part 3: Studies on Select (and Usually Neglected) Fragments
Aristotle on the Meaning of 'talanton' in Iliad 23
Aristotle and Aristarchus on the Meaning of 'keras' in the Iliad
Aristotle on the Theomachy in Iliad 21
Aristotle's Naturalistic Interpretation of Odyssey 12
Endmatter
References
Index nominum
Index locorum
Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies
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