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  title info:
    title: Aristotle's lost Homeric problems
    sub title: textual studies
  name:
    name part: Mayhew, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 224 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Part I. Preliminary studies -- Pat II. Studies based on Aristotle's extant works -- Part III. Studies on select (and usually neglected) fragments.
  note: Robert Mayhew.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aristotle
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aristote
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homère
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aristotle
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: History & Surveys
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  classification: PA3893.Z5 H66 2019eb
  classification: B485
  classification: 185
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    title info:
      title: Aristotle's lost Homeric problems
    name:
      name part: Mayhew, Robert.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2018956451
    identifier: (OCoLC)1041771198
    identifier: (OCoLC)1078433802
  identifier: 9780191872662
  identifier: 0191872660
  identifier: 9780192571526
  identifier: 0192571524
  identifier: 019883456X
  identifier: 9780198834564
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181210
    record change date: 20260319180332.5
    record identifier: in00005716807
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng