A New Fragment from the Letters of Aristotle

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_article_3253
dc.title	A New Fragment from the Letters of Aristotle
dc.contributor.author	Panegyres Konstantine
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/lexis-journal/2020/1/a-new-fragment-from-the-letters-of-aristotle/
dc.description.abstract	An Arabic manuscript preserves what purports to be a letter from Aristotle to a noblewoman. Closer scrutiny of its contents suggests that the letter was addressed to Olympias (mother of Alexander the Great) on the death of her brother (Alexander I of Epirus). This identification is important because Aristotle was said to have left behind at his death one book of letters to Olympias, an edition of which was published in antiquity. The question is therefore raised as to whether the fragment is genuine or spurious.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis
dc.relation.ispartof	Num. 38 (n.s.) – Giugno 2020 – Fasc. 1
dc.issued	2020-06-30
dc.dateAccepted	2020-05-22
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-29
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-1564
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Lexis/2210-8823/2020/01/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ancient edition
dc.subject	Ancient edition
dc.subject	Andronicus
dc.subject	Andronicus
dc.subject	Aristotle
dc.subject	Aristotle
dc.subject	Artemon
dc.subject	Artemon
dc.subject	Epistolography
dc.subject	Epistolography

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Konstantine Panegyres University of Oxford, UK

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An Arabic manuscript preserves what purports to be a letter from Aristotle to a noblewoman. Closer scrutiny of its contents suggests that the letter was addressed to Olympias (mother of Alexander the Great) on the death of her brother (Alexander I of Epirus). This identification is important because Aristotle was said to have left behind at his death one book of letters to Olympias, an edition of which was published in antiquity. The question is therefore raised as to whether the fragment is genuine or spurious.

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30 Giugno 2020

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22 Maggio 2020

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29 Febbraio 2020

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Keywords: Andronicus • Aristotle • Ancient edition • Artemon • Epistolography

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