Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0715631691 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Richard Janko is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
No reader will be able to stay silent about this fascinating book." ----Jonathan Barnes, "Phronesis" . Janko presents his case with enthusiasm and panache. He is forthright in expressing his own views and in denouncing the errors of other scholars. His arguments, some of them complex, are invariably clear - and often deliciously clever. "This is a splendidly vigorous book. Whatever the truth about TC ÝTractatus Coislinianus¨, Janko's conclusions must be taken seriously
"Only Man between Animals Can Laugh" (Aristotle) This is the story of an ancient manuscript of the X century, known as "Coislinianus 120" (now at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris) after the name of his last owner, a French collector of XVII century.This manuscript, that once belonged to the monastery of Great Lavra on Mounth Athos, was sent to Seguier de Coislin from Cyprus by father Athanasios Rethor in 16"Only Man between Animals Can Laugh" (Aristotle) Amore Roberto This is the story of an ancient manuscript of the X century, known as "Coislinianus 120" (now at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris) after the name of his last owner, a French collector of XVII century.This manuscript, that once belonged to the monastery of Great Lavra on Mounth Athos, was sent to Seguier de Coislin from Cyprus by father Athanasios Rethor in 1643.It was ignored for almost two centuries, until in 1839 J.A.Cramer, a classical scholar, analyzing its content, a rather haphazard collection of patristic and Aristotelian extracts, found what he believed to be "the words of a commentat. 3.It was ignored for almost two centuries, until in 1839 J.A.Cramer, a classical scholar, analyzing its content, a rather haphazard collection of patristic and Aristotelian extracts, found what he believed to be "the words of a commentat
Richard Janko's edition of the text is accompanied by a facing translation, interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary. Its discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics", which inaugurated the systematic study of comedy, but it was soon condemned as an ignorant compilation verging on forgery, and thus matters stood until the first publication of "Aristotle on Comedy" in 1984. This edition contains a new preface and additional bibliography.. In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript