The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Zucker, Arnaud; Hellmann, Oliver; Mayhew, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003850229
• Artikelnr.: 69738720

Autorenporträt

Arnaud Zucker is Professor of Greek Literature at the University Côte d'Azur (Nice, France). His key research topics are ancient zoology, ancient astronomy, mythography, and folk etymology. His recent publications include Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology: Theory and Practice I. Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University (NJ, USA). He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, especially on Aristotle and other early Peripatetics. His most recent book is Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies. Oliver Hellmann is außerplanmäßiger Professor of Classical Philology at Trier University (Germany). His main field of research is ancient natural science and its tradition, especially biology in Aristotle and the Peripatos. He is co-editor of Phaenias of Eresus: Text, Translation and Discussion (Routledge 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The Text of De mirabilibus auscultationibus: Observations on Its Structure and Transmission
Ciro Giacomelli; 2. Mapping Human Knowledge in Peripatetic Research: Thaumata, Endoxa and the Hierarchy of Beliefs
Han Baltussen; 3. Encounters with Curious Animals: De mirabilibus auscultationibus 1
15 and Historia Animalium 8(9)
Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. De mirabilibus auscultationibus 16
22 and Theophrastus' lost On Honey
Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 5. De mirabilibus auscultationibus 23
28 and Theophrastus' Lost On Animals that Appear in Swarms
Arnaud Zucker; 6. Miracula ignium: Theophrastus' On the Lava Flow in Sicily, De mirabilibus auscultationibus 33
41, and Pliny's Historia naturalis 2.236
238
Myrto Garani; 7. The Lives of Metals in Theophrastus and De mirabilibus auscultationibus
Malcolm Wilson; 8. De mirabilibus auscultationibus 71
74 and Theophrastus' De piscibus
Robert Mayhew; 9. Multiple Use of Data in Aristotle, the Peripatos, and Beyond: De mirabilibus auscultationibus 75
77 and Theophrastus' Lost On Animals Said to be Grudging
Oliver Hellmann; 10. De mirabilibus auscultationibus 139
151: Theophrastus' On Animals That Bite and Sting and Aristotle's Nomima barbarica
Gertjan Verhasselt; 11. Color Changes in De mirabilibus auscultationibus
Katerina Ierodiakonou; 12. Diseases in De mirabilibus auscultationibus
George Kazantzidis.