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Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is
accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in
English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two
other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both
the Tractatus Coislinianus , which is argued to be a summary of the
lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's
dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about
catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.
Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is
accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in
English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two
other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both
the Tractatus Coislinianus , which is argued to be a summary of the
lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's
dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about
catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.
The On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of
Gadara (1st century BC) survived amid the library of the Villa of
the Papyri at Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of
Vesuvius in AD 79. The papyrus-rolls in this, the only library that
survives from the ancient world, are with the aid of advanced
technology at last able to be read, reconstructed, and translated.
The On Poems, in five books, offers unique insights into ancient
literary criticism from Aristotle to Horace. Book 1 was published
in 2000. This volume contains the Greek text, translation, and
scholarly commentary on Books 3 and 4, together with the fragments
of Aristotle's lost dialogue On Poets, many of which come from Book
4. These shed light on Aristotle's views on such controversial
questions as mimesis, catharsis, and the origins of tragedy and
comedy.
This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition
of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey.
These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were
composed in the same style for several generations afterwards. One
group of such poems is the 'Homeric Hymns', ascribed to Homer in
antiquity. In fact the origins of these Hymns are as mysterious as
those of the Homeric epics themselves with little external evidence
to assist. This book will be of interest to scholars concerned with
Greek philology and dialects, Homeric epic and Greek literature of
the Archaic period. It should also find readers amongst specialists
in other oral poetries and those using computers in the Humanities.
In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus," a summarised treatise on
comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript. Its
discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of
Aristotle's "Poetics," which inaugurated the systematic study of
comedy, but it was soon condemned as an ignorant compilation
verging on forgery, and thus matters stood until the first
publication of "Aristotle on Comedy" in 1984. Richard Janko's
edition of the text is accompanied by a facing translation,
interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary. This edition
contains a new preface and additional bibliography.
This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on the Iliad
being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S.
Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the
Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos. Three introductory
essays discuss the role of Homer's gods in his poetry; the origins
and development of the epic diction; and the transmission of the
text, from the bard's lips to our own manuscripts. It is now widely
recognized that the first masterpiece of Western literature is an
oral poem; Professor Janko's detailed commentary aims to show how
this recognition can clarify many linguistic and textual problems,
entailing a radical reassessment of the work of Homer's Alexandrian
editors. The commentary also explores the poet's subtle creativity
in adapting traditional materials, whether formulae, typical
scenes, mythology, or imagery, so as best to move, inspire, and
entertain his audience, ancient and modern alike. Discussion of the
poem's literary qualities and structure is, where possible, kept
separate from that of more technical matters.
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