Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Ancient Greek Prose

亚里士多德 Pezographos：亚里士多德的写作风格及其对古希腊散文演变的贡献

• 批准号: EP/X025748/1
• 负责人: Edith Hall
• 金额: $ 270.15万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX025748%2F1
• 关键词: Aristoteles; Pezographos; Writing; Styles; Aristotle

Aristotle, a supreme intellectual figure, transformed both philosophy and other disciplines such as natural science and literary studies. Yet his own style and language have been overlooked, although he stands chronologically between classical Attic prose and the Hellenistic koine of most prose genres after the late 4th-century BCE growth of the Greek world. This project addresses his place in the history of literature and language, especially in relation to Homer, drama, rhetoric and Plato, writing a new chapter in the narrative of prose-writing that has excluded him. It scrutinises all his treatises largely regarded as authentic, plus the contested Athenaion Politeia, using methodologies including 'traditional' literary criticism, narratology, stylometric software and historical linguistics, allowing an unprecedented appreciation, in relationship to scientific method and communicative medium, of his illustrations, allusions, syntax, figures of speech, sentence type, paragraph and treatise structure, language and vocabulary. The outputs offer complementary perspectives: 1) illustrations and allusions; 2) sentence types, figures, tenses and relationship with oral communication; 3) vocabulary, language and place in the evolution of Greek; 4) how ancient philosophical commentaries responded to his style; 5) dedicated studies of single treatises or stylistic and philosophical topics (International Conference); 6) annotated bibliography (Website). The results will transform Aristotelian studies by providing the first assessment of Aristotle's neglected status as writer; this will enhance future studies, especially understanding how Aristotle's distinctive literary voice interacts with his scientific method and makes his ideas more lucid, vivid and memorable. The results will also inform future investigations of the Peripatetic treatises for which Aristotelian authorship has been suspected and the precise nature of the style to which his heirs and commentators responded.

亚里士多德是一位至高无上的知识分子，他改变了哲学和自然科学和文学研究等其他学科。然而，他自己的风格和语言却被忽视了，尽管他在时间顺序上处于古典阿提卡散文和公元前 4 世纪末希腊世界发展之后大多数散文流派的希腊化共通之间。这个项目阐述了他在文学和语言史上的地位，特别是与荷马、戏剧、修辞学和柏拉图有关的地位，在散文写作的叙事中写下了将他排除在外的新篇章。它仔细审查了他所有被认为是真实的论文，以及有争议的《雅典娜政治》，使用了包括“传统”文学批评、叙事学、文体测量软件和历史语言学在内的方法论，在科学方法和交流媒介方面对他的插图进行了前所未有的欣赏、典故、语法、修辞手法、句型、段落和论文结构、语言和词汇。产出提供了互补的观点：1）插图和典故； 2）句型、修辞格、时态以及与口语交际的关系； 3）希腊语演变中的词汇、语言和地位； 4）古代哲学评论如何回应他的风格； 5）单篇论文或文体和哲学主题的专门研究（国际会议）； 6）带注释的参考书目（网站）。研究结果将首次评估亚里士多德作为作家被忽视的地位，从而改变亚里士多德的研究。这将促进未来的研究，特别是了解亚里士多德独特的文学声音如何与他的科学方法相互作用，并使他的思想更加清晰、生动和令人难忘。研究结果还将为未来对那些被怀疑是亚里士多德作者的逍遥论文的调查以及他的继承人和评论家所回应的风格的确切性质提供信息。