Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia

This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

List of contents

1. Islands and their marvels as structural principles in the so-called historiographical section of the De mirabiles auscultationes - Irene Pajón Leyra; 2. Timaeus in pseudo-Aristotle's De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Stefan Schorn; 3. Pseudo-Aristotle, De mirabilibus auscultationibus 122-138 and Theopompos' Philippica - Pietro Zaccaria; 4. De mirabilibus auscultationibus and Heracleides of Pontos - Kelly Shannon-Henderson; 5. Myth, marvels, and De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Robin J. Greene; 6. Homer and Homeric exegesis in pseudo-Aristotle's De mirabilibus auscultationibus 115 - Charles Delattre; 7. Suspicious toponyms in the De mirabilibus auscultationibus: Textual problems, "forgeries," and methodological issues - Ciro Giacomelli; 8. Pseudo-Plutarch's On Rivers, the Mirabilia, Stobaeus 4.36, and paradoxographical literature - Søren Lund Sørensen.

About the author

Stefan Schorn is Professor of Ancient History at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on fragmentary Greek historiography and he is Editor-in-Chief of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature.
Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, and especially on Aristotle and other Peripatetics. His most recent book is Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies, and among his current projects is an edition of the fragments of Aristotle's lost Zoika.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Mayhew Schorn
• Assisted by: Mayhew Robert (Editor), Schorn Stefan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032569512
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256951-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts