UKRI-funded investigation based in Durham University's Centre for Ancient & Medieval Philosophy
Durham University
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News from the #Aristotle #literature ultra marathon: #Philoymthia was packed with data, genres, & thought-provoking approaches. After 22 speakers in the last 48 hours, we're game for more as Vatri's 'Greek Technical writing' workshop kicks off @Durham_Classics @edithmayhall
It's been a brilliant first day of Aristotle's use of literature - 3 more papers to go. So far excellent and dynamic discussions #Hesiod #endoxa #rhapsodes #lyric #Theognis #myth #fable #quotation #paraphrase #adaptation #philomythia
We're getting very excited about the Philomythia conference taking place next week. If you're interested in Aristotle's uses of literature, there's still time to register to attend online: eur01.safelinks.protection.o…
And for the programme take a look at the events on our Aristoteles Pezographos website: aristotlepezographos.org/
#Aristotle #Philosophy #literature #style #authors #intertexts #quotations
Photographic evidence that discussing the relationship between style and philosophy in Aristotle's works intensively for three days makes people happy...
We did it! Long inspiring Durham conference on style and substance in #Aristotle. The survivors! @AristotleStyle @durham_uni
Aristotle standing proud at our Style & Substance workshop yesterday with his good friend Prof. Phil Horky. Discussions touched on: #style #Stoics #metaphors #synaesthesia #pleasure #fragments #irony #ventriloquism #politics and of course #Aristotle...It was quite the day!
Wow! What a brilliant first day for the Style & Substance workshop. Terrific papers ranging from the #Analytics to the #Poetics and thought-provoking discussions after each. Lots of food for thought and more to come..Roll on Day 2! #Aristotle #style #philosophy
'The style of the Politics is of an easy, half-conversational character' (Newman, 1887, Vol. 1, p. vii) - we're looking forward to dissecting its style starting with Book 1 next week #Aristotle #politics #style
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If you want a jocular account of the life of Aristotle, tune into You're Dead to Me at 1000 AM BBC Radio 4. Here's a double-faced bust of Aristotle I saw yesterday in Athens National Museum. 2 Stagirites better than 1? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026m… @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle
Nicomachean Ethics is giving us so much food for thought! Today's highlights were Aristotle's engagement with #art, the nature of #scientific knowledge, and types of #friendship set against the lived experience of #Athens. And we still have two more books to explore...
We're making strides with Nicomachean Ethics. This week on the distinction between wishing & deliberating and a first look at Attic elements in Aristotle was especially illuminating. #wish #deliberate #Attic #language
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I'm struggling with Hobbes' weirdly de-democratised version of Aristotle's RHETORIC for a Special Issue of the journal RHETORICA I'm editing. He literally excised every single mention of "ordinary" people's capacity to learn the art of persuasion. @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle
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Yay. Swam beneath Parnassus. Best way to prepare for tomorrow's @AristotleStyle seminar. And had good news on annual cancer survivor scan. Feeling eudaimon.
We're back and we've had two barnstorming sessions this week on the brilliantly rich Book 1 of Nicomachean Ethics. So many connections to make... #ethics #style #commentators #metaphor
Hot on the heels of the conference we're back to another text. Alessandro Vatri's introduction to On Sophistical Refutations was a tour de force, balanced by an equally brilliant exposition of ἀδολεσχία's complex range #refutations #argumentation #sophists #babbling #Clouds
What a day in Coimbra, when our TWO @Durham_Classics Aristotle research projects combined to talk his RHETORIC & its democratic potential at a major philosophy conference. We even found him on a fresco! @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle @neo_pythagorean @RosieWyles @ProfArleneHH
It's been a whistle-stop tour through 'Topics' but we've touched on its relationship to 'Categories', the style and unity of the text, principles of clarity and the figure of the dyskolos dialectician. Also the linguistic puzzle of τὁ τί ἦν εἶναι
'What's in a name?' Our week on Categories had us thinking pretty hard about that. Or more precisely the status of, and appropriate translation for, onomata...
#Aristotle #translation #philosophicalterms