Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II - Softcover

Janko, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715631691 ISBN 13: 9780715631690

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 2002

Synopsis

In 1839, the Tractatus Coislinianus, a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript. 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. Richard Janko's edition of the text is accompanied by a facing translation, interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary. This edition contains a new preface and additional bibliography.

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About the Author

Richard Janko is Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His publications include as translator Aristotle: Poetics (1987); as editor The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13-16 (1992); and Philodemus: the Aesthetic Works. Vol. I/1: On Poems Book 1 (2000) and Books 3-4 (2011)

Edition details

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715631691
• ISBN 13: 9780715631690
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310