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Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia Stefan Schorn

Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia By Stefan Schorn

Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia by Stefan Schorn


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This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia Summary

Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia by Stefan Schorn

This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him.

The central section of the Mirabilia, namely 78151, for the most part deals with historiographical material, with many of its entries having some relationship to ancient Greek historians of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The chapters in this volume discuss various aspects of this portion of the text, including textual issues involving toponyms; possible structural principles behind the organization of this section; the passages on Theopompus and Timaeus; mythography; the philosopher Heracleides of Pontos; Homeric exegesis; and the interrelationship between pseudo-Plutarchs On Rivers, a section of the historian Stobaeus Geography, and the Mirabilia.

Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of this text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

About Stefan Schorn

Stefan Schorn is Professor of Ancient History at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on fragmentary Greek historiography and he is Editor-in-Chief of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature.

Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, and especially on Aristotle and other Peripatetics. His most recent book is Aristotles Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies, and among his current projects is an edition of the fragments of Aristotles lost Zoika.

Table of Contents

1. Islands and their marvels as structural principles in the so-called historiographical section of the De mirabiles auscultationes - Irene Pajon Leyra; 2. Timaeus in pseudo-Aristotle's De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Stefan Schorn; 3. Pseudo-Aristotle, De mirabilibus auscultationibus 122-138 and Theopompos Philippica - Pietro Zaccaria; 4. De mirabilibus auscultationibus and Heracleides of Pontos - Kelly Shannon-Henderson; 5. Myth, marvels, and De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Robin J. Greene; 6. Homer and Homeric exegesis in pseudo-Aristotle's De mirabilibus auscultationibus 115 - Charles Delattre; 7. Suspicious toponyms in the De mirabilibus auscultationibus: Textual problems, "forgeries," and methodological issues - Ciro Giacomelli; 8. Pseudo-Plutarchs On Rivers, the Mirabilia, Stobaeus 4.36, and paradoxographical literature - Sren Lund Srensen.

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NPB9781032569505
9781032569505
1032569506
Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia by Stefan Schorn
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-10-31
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