Aristoteles und Athen

Volume 1 (1893) ascribes The Constitution of the Athenians to Aristotle and investigates the sources he employed when writing it.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Author)

9781108016315, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 July 2010

396 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) was one of the most prominent German philologists of his time and his work is still well regarded. This book, originally published in 1893, is a detailed analysis of the The Constitution of the Athenians, then usually (though not universally) regarded as a work of Aristotle. Wilamowitz accepts Aristotle's authorship of the famous treatise on the history of the constitution that restored democracy after the oligarchy of the Thirty (403 BCE). In Volume 1, he investigates the historical sources employed by Aristotle, hypothesising that he was using at least two now lost works in addition to Herodotus and Thucydides, and that these were likely to be semi-official, contemporary chronicles of events in the city.

Vorwort
Erstes Buch. Analyse der aristotelischen schrift von der politie der Athener: 1. Chronologie
2. Herodotos
3. Solon
4. Drakons verfassung
5. Thukydides
6. Die demagogen des fünften jahrhunderts
7. Die verfassung
8. Die Atthis
9. Nachwirkung des buches in der späteren zeit
10. Zweck und bedeutung des buches.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]