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Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems - Textual Studies (Hardcover)
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Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems - Textual Studies (Hardcover)
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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.
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