Aristotle Poetics: Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries

Aristoteles, Leonardo Tarán, Dimitri Gutas

BRILL, Mar 19, 2012 - Philosophy - 536 pages

This important new editio maior of Aristotle's Poetics is based on all the primary sources and is accompanied by a details critical apparatus. 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.

Contents

• ARISTOTLE POETICS: 163
• Bibliography: 499
• Indices: 521

About the author

Leonardo Tar n, 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. 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).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Aristotle Poetics: Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries; Volume 338 of Mnemosyne, Supplements; Volume 338 of Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava: Supplementum
• Authors: Aristoteles, Leonardo Tarán, Dimitri Gutas
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: BRILL, 2012
• ISBN: 9004217401, 9789004217409
• Length: 536 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing; Philosophy / Criticism; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; Poetry / General