Aristotle detective : an Aristotle detective novel / Margaret Doody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doody, Margaret.

Series:

The Aristotle Detective Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle--Fiction.

Aristotle.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C--Fiction.

Greece.

Athens (Greece)--Fiction.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle. Replete with suspense, historical detail, and humor, and complemented by an ever-growing cast of characters and vivid descriptions of the ancient world, Doody’s mysteries are as much lively takes on the figures and forms of the classics as they are classic whodunits in their own right. In Aristotle Detective, we first meet Stephanos—naive Watson to Aristotle’s learned Holmes—a young landed Athenian and student of Aristotle. With the aid of his cunning, olive-loving teacher, Stephanos must clear his exiled cousin of murder and save his family’s honor in a tense public trial. Will Stephanos survive to cinch the case?

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Characters

Maps

I I, Stephanos

II Murder in Athens

III Threnodies and Accusations

IV Aristotle at Home

V Hearing and Overhearing

VI Prytaneion to Peiraeus

VII Taverns and Broken Vessels

VIII Blood and Insults

IX Family Matters

X Puzzles in Writing

XI Fire and Darkness

XII Swords and Stones

XIII The Last Prodikasia

XIV A Day at the Farm

XV Journey to Euboia

XVI Return to Athens

XVII Aristotle Plans a Journey

XVIII Peril and Approach of Death

XIX Thoughts of Death

XX At Hekate’s Crossroads

XXI Aristotle Teaches Rhetoric

XXII The Trial Begins

XXIII The Areopagos in an Uproar

XXIV After the Trial

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-13184-X

OCLC:

868580329