On poems / Philodemus ; edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Richard Janko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C.

Contributor:

Janko, Richard, 1955- editor.

Series:

Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. 2000 ; Aesthetic works. v. 1.

Philodemus--the aesthetic works ; v. 1

Standardized Title:

On poems. English & Greek

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Poetics--Early works to 1800.

Poetics.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000-

Language Note:

Preliminaries and commentary in English, includes original Greek text with English translation.

Summary:

"The On Poems by Philodemus (c. 110-35 BC), the Epicurean philosopher and poet who taught Vergil and influenced Horace, is our main source for Hellenistic literary theory. In Book 1 Philodemus summarizes a survey of previously unknown poetic and aesthetic theories. Compiled by Crates of Mallos, this survey reviews the critical theories of earlier Epicureans, Peripatetics, and Stoics, who had argued that sound is the source of poetic excellence, and that the ear, unaided by the mind, can judge it. Philodemus led the reaction against this invasion of literary criticism by musical theory, arguing that form and content are interrelated, and that substantive content, not pretty sound, is what makes poetry worthwhile." "The 200 fragments of Book 1, carbonized in the eruption of Vesuvius, were entirely jumbled after their discovery at Herculaneum. This edition reconstitutes their original sequence according to a new method, while exploiting previously unknown manuscript sources and new techniques for reading the extant pieces. In thus restoring this important aesthetic treatise from antiquity, it makes a major addition to the corpus of classical literature" --Book Jacket.

Contents:

volume 1. Book 1

volume 2. Book 2, with the fragments of Heracledorus and Pausimachus

volume 3. Books 3-4, with the fragments of Aristotle On poets / edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Richard Janko, with an unpublished edition by Cecilia Mangoni.

Notes:

"The Philodemus translation project"--Series title page.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 451-461) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. On poems. English & Greek. On poems.

ISBN:

0198150415

9780198150411

9780198835080

0198835086

9780199572076

0199572070

9780198866862

0198866860

OCLC:

43036875

Publisher Number:

99987829700

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