"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. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia,or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelianepistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle's Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus' scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular"--
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.
The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text and the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotles Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease.
The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.
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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"The volume renders an important and exciting contribution on a number of fronts, reinvigorating the scholarship on a largely neglected text." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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 Plinys 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 Aristotles Nomima barbarica - Gertjan Verhasselt;
11. Color
Changes in De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Katerina Ierodiakonou;
12.
Diseases in De mirabilibus auscultationibus - George Kazantzidis.
Arnaud Zucker is Professor of Greek Literature at the University Cōte dAzur (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 Aristotles 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).
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