Aristotle Poetics: Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries

553 Pages·2012·3.13 MB·English

by  Leonardo Tarán

Aristotle
Poetics
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Aristotle
Poetics
Editio Maior of the Greek Text
with Historical Introductions
and Philological Commentaries
By
Leonardo Tarán
(Greek and Latin, edition of the Greek Text)
and
Dimitri Gutas
(Arabic and Syriac)
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2012
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CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................. ix
L.Tarán
Preface ................................................................. xi
D.Gutas
Abbreviations .......................................................... xiii
INTRODUCTION
I. HistoryoftheTextofthePoetics.................................. 3
ThePrimaryWitnesses.TheEditor'sTask.Some
MiscellaneousMatters ........................................ 4
. ThePoeticsandItsPlaceamongAristotle’sWorks.The
AvailabilityofAristotle’sScholarlyTreatisesduringHis
LifetimeandThoseofTheophrastusandEudemus.......... 11
. FromtheDeathsofTheophrastusandEudemusuntilthe
EndoftheFirstCenturyce................................... 25
. FromtheSecondCenturycetothePoetics’Archetype ..... 32
. FromtheNinthtotheFourteenthCentury.................. 35
. FromtheFifteenthtotheEighteenthCentury............... 38
. TheNineteenthCentury...................................... 61
. FromtheTwentiethCenturytothePresent ................. 66
II. ThePoeticsinSyriacandArabicTransmission................... 77
D.Gutas
Introduction....................................................... 77
. LiteraryEvidence.............................................. 78
Themistius/“TheFa¯ra¯b¯ıSource” ............................. 78
TimothyI.(d.,NestorianPatriarchinBaghdad,
–) .................................................. 80
al-Kind¯ı(d.after)......................................... 88
Hunaynibn-Isha¯q(d.) ................................... 90
˙ ˙
Isha¯qibn-Hunayn(d.–).............................. 91
˙ ˙
Abu¯-BiˇsrMatta¯ibn-Yu¯nus(d.) .......................... 92
vi contents
al-Fa¯ra¯b¯ı(d.).............................................. 93
Yahya¯ibn-#Ad¯ı(d.) ....................................... 96
˙
Ibn-an-Nad¯ım(TheIndex,Compiledinad) ............ 96
Gˇa¯biribn-Hayya¯n(TenthCentury?) ......................... 97
˙
OtherReferences.............................................. 98
. DocumentaryEvidence—TheExtantTranslations .......... 98
. AnalysisoftheTransmissionandStemmaticAffiliations ... 106
. TheSyro-ArabicPoeticsintheEditionsoftheGreekText .. 111
. TheSignificanceoftheSyro-ArabicTranslation,Its
Editions,andthePresentAnalysisandCommentary ....... 114
III. ProlegomenatotheEditionoftheText........................... 129
(a).ParisinusGraecus=A .................................. 129
(b).TheLatinTranslationbyWilliamofMoerbekeandIts
GreekModel,Φ ............................................... 135
(c).A+Φ=Π...................................................... 139
(d).Riccardianus=B........................................... 140
(e).TheHyparchetypeoftheGraeco-LatinTradition:Ξ......... 143
(f).TheSyro-ArabicTraditionandtheGreekMSSUsedby
theTranslatorsandCorrectors:Σ,Ψ,andΣ.................. 144
(g).TheArchetypeΩ .............................................. 148
(h).ParisinusGraecusandOtherRecentiores.............. 149
(i). LostorUnknownMSSofthePoetics......................... 151
(j). TheEditionofthePoeticsbyRudolphKassel ................ 152
(k).TheTextofthePoeticsandthePresentEdition.............. 156
StemmaCodicum ..................................................... 159
Sigla .................................................................... 161
ARISTOTLE
POETICS
GreekTextwithCriticalApparatus................................... 165
NotestotheText....................................................... 221
Graeco-ArabicCriticalApparatusandCommentary ................ 307
D.Gutas
IndexofGreekWordsofthePoetics .................................. 475
contents vii
Bibliography ........................................................... 499
INDICES
IndexofNames ........................................................ 523
SubjectIndex........................................................... 530
IndexofGreekandLatinMSS ........................................ 537
IndexofArabicandSyriacMSS....................................... 538

PREFACE
InthecourseofmyresearchonAristotle’sPoeticsIcametotheconclu-
sion that an editio maior of its text was indispensable for the scholarly
studyofthisdifficultwork.WhileasaclassicistIfeltcompetenttodeal
with the Greek and Latin traditions, I needed the cooperation of an
orientalist, given the importance of the Syro-Arabic tradition. Dimitri
Gutas agreed to undertake this time-consuming and difficult task: his
workappearsasChapterTwoandintheGraeco-ArabicCriticalAppa-
ratusandCommentary.FortherestofthisbookIamsolelyresponsible.
I wish to thank Gutas for his important contribution, his patience in
answering my questions, and his insightful cooperation at all times. I
alsowouldliketoacknowledgethehelpofGerhardEndressinJanuary
,whichdecidedmetoseekthecollaborationofanorientalist.
Forthesakeofsimplicity,IrefertoArabicandSyriacwordswithout
thediacriticsinthetransliteration.
I am grateful to Nigel Wilson for his aid in obtaining copies, which
weremadearound,oftheOxfordphotostatsofthePoeticspartof
codexRiccardianus.
I also thank the staffs of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and
the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence for their unfailing courtesy, the
StanwoodCockeyLodgeFoundationofColumbiaUniversityforhelping
todefraythecostoftravel,andtheanonymousrefereeforanumberof
suggestions. I am grateful to the staff of Butler Library for their help,
especiallytoKarenGreenandMayraMelendez.
Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude to all the
scholars,sincetheRenaissancetoourdays,whosework,whetherIagree
withitornot,hascontributedtothestudyofthetextofthePoetics.
LeonardoTarán
ColumbiaUniversity