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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: bibliotheca, classica, batava, supplementum, mnemosyne, bibliography, aristotle, tractatus, coislinianus, poetics
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 9004111328
ISBN-13: 9789004111325

This bibliography of Aristotle’s "Poetics" registers all editions, translations, commentaries and studies bearing on the work or the major concepts that have been associated with it, correctly or incorrectly, from 1481 up until 1996. A survey of medieval translations and commentaries written on the Orient and in Europe is also provided. Special attention is paid to the reviews. The oldest one registered dates from 1697. Publications related to the "Tractatus Coislianus", which partly rests on "Poetics II" (lost), have been included. In the author’s text Greek nouns and adjectives h

Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: poetics, poets, fragments, coislinianus, tractatus, reconstruction
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1987-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0872200337
ISBN-13: 9780872200333

Richard Janko’s acclaimed translation of Aristotle’s "Poetics" is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko’s translations with notes of both the "Tractatus Coislinianus", which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the "Poetics", and fragments of Aristotle’s "Dialogue On Poets", including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.