{"product_id":"aristotles-lost-homeric-problems-robert-mayhew-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Mayhew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019883456X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198834564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019","brand":"Robert Mayhew","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43914250617087,"sku":"9780198834564","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3e47a9a9-0ef3-4d7e-b289-2552d6a2a1f3.jpg?v=1680641214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aristotles-lost-homeric-problems-robert-mayhew-9780198834564","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}