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Record Nr.

UNISA996218224403316

Autore

Ford Andrew Laughlin

Titolo

Aristotle as poet [[electronic resource] ] : the song for Hermias and its contexts / / Andrew Ford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16462-0

9786613164629

0-19-983814-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

881/.01

Soggetti

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. The Text""; ""Aristotle: The Song for Hermias""; ""Sources and First Reading""; ""2. History and Context""; ""Deconstructing Atarneus: Questions of Method""; ""Constructing Hermias: The Erythraean Inscription""; ""The End of Hermias: Theopompus�s Letter to Philip""; ""3. Performance and Occasion""; ""Commemorative Epigrams: Aristotle and Simonides""; ""Book Epigrams: Theocritus of Chios""; ""Texts and Things: Herodotus on Hermotimus""; ""4. Performance and Context""; ""Witnesses: Callisthenes� Hermias""

""Sources: Hermippus�s On Aristotle""""Authenticity: “Aristotle�s� Apology""; ""5. Genres of Poetry""; ""Lyric Genres from Plato to Alexandria""; ""Impious Song: The Paean to Lysander""; ""Paean, Hymn, Skolion?""; ""6. Kinds of Hymn""; ""Hymnic Form: Ariphron�s Paean to Health""; ""Hymnic Flexibility: Pindar�s Fourteenth Olympic Ode""; ""Hymns in Hexameters: “Homer� and Aristotle""; ""7. Ethos""; ""Ethos in Debate: An Attic Skolion and a Poem by Sappho""; ""Ethos in Protreptic: Aristotle�s Hymn to Hermias, vv. 1�8""

""Ethos in Epiphany: Immortal Virtue in Sophocles� Philoctetes""""8. Reading""; ""Troping: (omitted) in Euripides and Bacchylides""; ""Mythologizing: Hymn to Hermias, vv. 9�16""; ""Immortalizing: Hymn to Hermias, vv. 17�21""; ""9. Endurance""; ""Memorial: Aristotle�s Elegiacs to Eudemus""; ""Survival: A Letter from Plato""; ""NOTES"";



""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""GENERAL INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""

""E""""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""P""; ""S""; ""T""; ""X""

Sommario/riassunto

Aristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is a comprehensive study of Aristotle's poetic activity, interpreting his remaining fragments in relation to the earlier poetic tradition and to the literary culture of his time.