Historical criticism in Aristotle"s Homeric questions

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8 The first book of Porphyry's Homeric Questions on the Iliad is extant in one manuscript (Vaticanus gr. ); see Sodano, R., Porphyrii Quaestionum Homericum Liber I (Naples, ).For the rest, extracts from Porphyry's Homeric Questions (on the Iliad and the Odyssey) have survived among the Homeric is not always clear what material is Cited by: HISTORICAL CRITICISM IN ARISTOTLE'S HOMERIC QUESTIONS By G.

Huxley, m.r.i.a. The Queen's University of Belfast [Received, 21 July, Read, 22 November, Published, 27 April, ] Abstract In his Homeric Problems Aristotle defended Homer against detractors.

One method of defence was to demonstrate that in certain passages the poet. Porphyry's Homeric Questions was written in the 3rd century A.D. in response to a friend's request that the philosopher try to recall some of their leisure discussions about problems arising from their readings of Homer.

Such literary discussions were commonplace among the educated in antiquity and survive in several works from that period.

While Aristotle's Homeric 3/5(1). Get this from a library. Aristotle's lost Homeric problems: textual studies. [Robert Mayhew] -- This series of studies focuses on various aspects of Aristotle's Homeric Problems, an oft-neglected work for which the evidence consists mostly.

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - 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.

I choose Homeric Questions as the title of this book both because I am convinced that the reality of the Homeric poems, Among the historical facts used by Aristotle is diction, léxis. but it cannot be equated with some clever novelty in literary criticism. As for the second of the two disciplines that I propose to apply, anthropology.

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism.

Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics.

The Homeric Questions of the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry (3rd cent. CE) is an important work in the history of Homeric criticism.

In contrast to the philosopher's allegorical readings of Homer in De Antro and De Styge, in the Homeric Questions Porphyry solves problemata by applying the dictum that "the poet explains himself". Based on a new collation of the 5/5(1).

Background. Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII) and Rhetoric. The Poetics is specifically concerned with some point, Aristotle's original work was divided in two, each "book" written on a separate roll of papyrus.

Only the first part – that which focuses on tragedy and epic (as a quasi-dramatic art, given its definition in Ch 23) – survives. The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history.

Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission. As the shortest book I've got on my literature student bookshelf, this Dover Thrift Edition Poetics is the cheapest, and most flimsy, but completely worthwhile book.

There's no introduction to the book, just a note about when it was written (circa BC) and about Aristotle himself, taking up less than a s: Porphyry of Tyre (/ ˈ p ɔːr f ɪr i /; Greek: Πορφύριος, Porphýrios; Arabic: فرفوريوس ‎, Furfūriyūs; c.

AD – c. AD) was a Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre during Roman rule. He edited and published The Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his commentary on Euclid's Elements was used as a source by Pappus of Alexandria.

This book is a very welcome addition to the growing library of Porphyrian scholarship and ancient Homeric exegesis. Porphyry’s Homeric Questions is an important work in the history of Homeric criticism.

In contrast to allegorical readings of Homer such as we know them, for instance, from Heraclitus the Stoic but also from Porphyry’s own De antro nympharum and De Styge, in the Homeric. In the Poetics, Aristotle is primarily concerned with analysis of two types of literary works, drama and considers that both genres function as types of imitation, or mimesis, by means of.

This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of.

Gail Fine's On Ideas is a study of Book I of Aristotle's short essay Peri Idēon, in which Aristotle presents a systematic account of a series of five arguments for the existence of Platonic forms along with a series of objections to each of these arguments. Fine's aim in this book is to explore these arguments and the objections that Aristotle makes with a view to determining the extent.

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lostHomeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homericscholia- 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.

Aristotle‘s Poetics has long been recognized as a seminal work of literary analysis of tragic drama, epic poetry and stylistic devices such as metaphor, and his famous notion of the cathartic purging of the emotions,[1] have defined a critical terminology for generations of later the Ars Poetica, Horace defends the civilizing power of poetry.

LITERARY CRITICISM: CONSOLIDATED QUESTION BANK MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS Choose the best answer from the choices given: 1. The doctrine of ideas was propounded by a. Longinus b.

Plato c. Aristotle d. Horace 2. The author of On the Sublime is: a. Horace b. Pope c. Longinus d. Johnson 3. Mimesis means a.

Imitation b. Explanation c. Justification. Homeric scholarship is the study of any Homeric topic, especially the two large surviving epics, the Iliad and is currently part of the academic discipline of classical subject is one of the oldest in scholarship.

For the purpose of the present article, Homeric scholarship is divided into three main phases: antiquity; the 18th and 19th centuries; and the 20th century.

Aristotle supposedly wrote a second book on comedy, which is now lost. The main focus of the Poetics is on Greek tragedy. Though there were thousands of tragedies and scores of playwrights, we only have thirty-three extant tragedies, written by the three great tragedians: Aeschylus (– B.C.E.), Sophocles (– B.C.E.), and Euripides.The Homeric Questions of the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry (3rd cent.

CE) is an important work in the history of Homeric criticism. In contrast to the philosopher's allegorical readings of Homer in De Antro and De Styge, in the Homeric Questions Porphyry solves problemata by applying the dictum that "the poet explains himself".within his discussion of Plato, but the criticism also applies to Aristotle, since, Adkins argues, the same Homeric values equally inhibit both Plato and Aristotle from developing an adequate (i.e., a Kantian) moral philos ophy (see, e.g., pp.

). 13 See Gr. 3/; Critique of Practical Reason (hereafter Pr.R.).