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This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals.The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text and the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle's Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus'scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease.The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.

This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him.The central section of the Mirabilia, namely §§ 78–151, for the most part deals with historiographical material, with many of its entries having some relationship to ancient Greek historians of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The chapters in this volume discuss various aspects of this portion of the text, including textual issues involving toponyms; possible structural principles behind the organization of this section; the passages on Theopompus and Timaeus; mythography; the philosopher Heracleides of Pontos; Homeric exegesis; and the interrelationship between pseudo-Plutarch's On Rivers, a section of the historian Stobaeus'Geography, and the Mirabilia.Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of this text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

Eudemus of Rhodes was a pupil of Aristotle in the second half of the fourth century BCE. When Aristotle died, having chosen Theophrastus as his successor, Eudemus returned to Rhodes where it appears he founded his own school. His contributions to logic were significant: he took issue with Aristotle concerning the status of the existential'is,'and together with Theophrastus he made important contributions to hypothetical syllogistic and modal logic. He wrote at length on physics, largely following Aristotle, and took an interest in animal behavior. His histories of geometry, arithmetic, and astronomy were of great importance and are responsible for much of what we know of these subjects in earlier times.Volume 11 in the series Rutgers Studies in Classical Humanities is different in that it is composed entirely of articles that discuss Eudemus from a variety of viewpoints. Sixteen scholars representing seven nations have contributed essays to the volume. A special essay by Dimitri Gutas brings together for the first time the Arabic material relating to Eudemus. Other contributors and essays are: Hans B. Gottschalk,'Eudemus and the Peripatos'; Tiziano Dorandi,'Quale aspetto controverso della biografia di Eudemo di Rodi'; William W. Fortenbaugh,'Eudemus'Work On Expression'; Pamela M. Huby,'Did Aristotle Reply to Eudemus and Theophrastus on Some Logical Issues?'; Robert Sharples,'Eudemus Physics: Change, Place and Time'; Han Baltussen,'Wehrli's Edition of Eudemus of Rhodes: The Physical Fragments from Simplicius'Commentary on Aristotle's Physics'; Sylvia Berryman,'Sumphues and Suneches: Continuity and Coherence in Early Peripatetic Texts'; Istvbn Bodnbr,'Eudemus'Unmoved Movers: Fragments 121-123b Wehrli'; Deborah K. W. Modrak,'Phantasia, Thought and Science in Eudemus'; Stephen White,'Eudemus the Naturalist'; J orgen Mejer,'Eudemus and the History of Science'; Leonid Zhmud,'Eudemus'History of Mathematics'; Alan C. Bowen,'Eudemus'History of Early Greek Astronomy: Two Hypotheses'; Dmitri Panchenko,'Eudemus Fr. 145 Wehrli and the Ancient Theories of Lunar Light'; and Gbbor Betegh,'On Eudemus Fr. 150 Wehrli.''[Eudemus of Rhodes] marks a substantial progress in our knowledge of Eurdemus. For it enlarges the scope of the information available on this author, highlights the need of, and paves the way to, a new critical edition of the Greek fragments of his works, and provides a clearer view of his life, thought, sources and influence. In all these respects, it represents a necessary complement to Wehrli's edition of Eudemus'fragments.'-Amos Bertolacci, The Classical BulletinIstvbn Bodnbr is a member of the philosophy department at the Eotvos University in Budapest, where he teaches and does research on ancient philosophy. He has been a junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and most recently has been an Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiat in Berlin at the Max Plank Institut for Wissenschaftsgeschichte and at the Freie Universitot.William W. Fortenbaugh is professor of classics at Rutgers University. In addition to editing several books in this series, he has written Aristotle on Emotion and Quellen zur Ethik Theophrastus. New is his edition of Theophrastus's treatise On Sweat.

'Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the''Peripatos''or''Lyceum,''and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical themes and details of famous Athenians; to botanical and zoological issues; and even entertaining,''novelistic''stories and strange reports (Mirabilia).This volume includes new scholarship, with translation of source texts for the writings, thought, and influence of Phaenias (whose name also appears as''Phanias''and''Phainias''), as well as essays that take up various areas of his life and work in greater detail.The chapters of Phaenias of Eresus cover a remarkable range of intellectual areas, which is in keeping with the varied interests of the early Peripatetics in general. Phaenias is thus an ideal model for exploring issues of specialization and differentiation in research in the early Peripatos.'

Aristoxenus of Tarentum was reported to have been bitterly disappointed when Theophrastus was chosen instead of him to succeed Aristotle as the head of the Peripatetic School. He had a truly phenomenal output of some 453 volumes, most of which survive only in fragments. He was the most famous music theorist in antiquity and came to be referred to simply as'the musician.'In addition, he was a founder of Greek biography and wrote the life histories of Pythagoras, Archytas, Socrates, and Plato among others. This volume includes eleven selections, which are almost evenly divided between his work in music theory and biography. There is a chapter on his general biographical method as well as chapters on his specific treatments of the Pythagoreans, Socrates, and Plato. There are chapters evaluating the extent to which Aristoxenus was a historian of music, his account of music therapy, his views on musical'character,'the use of instruments and empiricism in his harmonic theory, and his relation to the'Neoclassical'Greek composers of the fourth century. This volume includes:'Did Aristoxenus Write Musical History?,'Andrew Barker;'Instruments and Empiricism in Aristoxenus'Elementa harmonica,'David Creese;'Aristoxenus and Musical Ethos,'Eleonora Rocconi;'Aristoxenus and Music Therapy: Fr. 26 Wehrli Within the Tradition on Music and Catharsis,'Antonella Provenza;'Aristoxenus and the'Neoclassicists,'Timothy Power;'Apollonius on Theophrastus on Aristoxenus,'William W. Fortenbaugh;'Aristoxenus'Biographical Method,'Stefan Schorn;'Aristoxenus and the Pythagoreans,'Leonid Zhmud;'Aristoxenus'Life of Socrates,'Carl A. Huffman;'Aristoxenus'Life of Plato,'John Dillon; and'Aristoxenus and the Early Academy,'Andrew Barker. Spanning close to three full decades, Transaction's Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities Series continues to pioneer in the field of classical studies.