Aristotle Poetics

Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21740-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band 338, 538 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

This important new editio maior of Aristotle's Poetics, based on all the primary sources, is a major contribution to scholarship. The introductory chapters provide important new insights about the transmission of the text to the present day and especially the significance of the Syro-Arabic tradition. The Greek text is accompanied by a detailed critical apparatus as well as Notes to the Text; in addition there is a Graeco-Arabic critical apparatus and commentary. An Index of Greek Words, Indices, and a Bibliography complement the work. This publication will be an indispensable tool for all Aristotelian scholars, historians of Greek literature and criticism, and specialists of the transmission and reception of classical works.

Zielgruppe

This book will be of interest to institutes, academic libraries, public libraries, Hellenists, literary critics, Aristotelian scholars, and advanced students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarán, Leonardo

Gutas, Dimitri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Über Autor(innen)

Tarán, Leonardo
Leonardo Tarán, Ph.D. 1962 in Classics, Princeton University, is Jay Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages Emeritus at Columbia University. He has published extensively in the field of ancient philosophy, including Parmenides (1965), Academica (1975), Speusippus (1981), etc.

Gutas, Dimitri
Dimitri Gutas, PhD (1975) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University, is Professor of Arabic at Yale. He has published on the medieval Graeco-Arabic translation movement and its lexicography, the transmission of Greek philosophical texts into Arabic, and Arabic philosophy. Most recently he published the Greek text and medieval Arabic translation of Theophrastus, On First Principles (2010).