{"product_id":"aristotles-lost-homeric-problems-textual-studies-9780198834564","title":"Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies","description":"This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost \u003cem\u003eHomeric Problems\u003c\/em\u003e. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric \u003cem\u003escholia\u003c\/em\u003e - 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese studies focus on various aspects of the \u003cem\u003eHomeric Problems\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e; 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 \u003cem\u003eHomeric Problems\u003c\/em\u003e through an examination in context of quotations from (or allusions to) Homer in Aristotle's extant works, and specifically in the \u003cem\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eRhetoric\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eHomeric Problems\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Mayhew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198834564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Mayhew, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, Seton Hall University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy and his most recent publications in the field include the books \u003cem\u003eTheophrastus of Eresus: \u003c\/em\u003e On Winds (Brill, 2018), \u003cem\u003eProdicus the Sophist: Texts, Translations, and Commentary\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2011), and \u003cem\u003eAristotle: \u003c\/em\u003e Problems (two volumes; Harvard University Press, 2011), as well as a number of essays on Aristotelian philosophy and science published over the past couple of years in the following journals: \u003cem\u003eClassical Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eEikasmos\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eHarvard Studies in Classical Philology\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eHermes\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eHyperboreus\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eJournal of Hellenic Studies\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ePhilologus\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eRheinisches Museum fur Philologie\u003c\/em\u003e. He also edited and contributed to \u003cem\u003eThe Aristotelian\u003c\/em\u003e Problemata Physica\u003cem\u003e: Philosophical and Scientific Investigations\u003c\/em\u003e (Brill, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44456458649715,"sku":"9780198834564","price":189.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b66e1cc7-df1f-47d6-8604-cf3db5ba4a3b.jpg?v=1773750364","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/aristotles-lost-homeric-problems-textual-studies-9780198834564","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}