Achilles’ Inconsistency in Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems: a Fresh Look at Four bT-scholia of the Iliad

Authors

  • Robert Mayhew Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (USA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36950/KTUZ9098

Keywords:

Achilles, Aristotle, Homer, Poetics, Porphyry, scholia

Abstract

My aim in this essay is to re-examine four bT-scholia of the Iliad, concerning the purported inconsistency of Achilles. Two of these have long been recognized as fragments from the Homeric Problems; but the other two, if my speculations are correct, might be previously unattested Aristotle-fragments. Eustathius plays an important supporting role in understanding these scholia, as do relevant passages in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and especially Poetics.

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Published

2019-12-16

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019)

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How to Cite

Mayhew, R. (2019). Achilles’ Inconsistency in Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems: a Fresh Look at Four bT-scholia of the Iliad. Hyperboreus, 25(1), 5-26. https://doi.org/10.36950/KTUZ9098