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- From: cla02@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R. Wallace)
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- Subject: Re: Sulla and Aristotle
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:37:42 GMT
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- From article <1dcjs7INNltd@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>, by allen-benjamin@yale.edu (Benjamin Allen):
- >
- > Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts reports that a large cache of previously lost
- > works of Aristotle was discovered by Sullan troops in 80 B.C. Does anyone
- > know the source of this story, and if so, which works they were?
- >
- > Ben Allen, Yale University
- > allen-benjamin@yale.edu
-
- This romantic story is found in Strabo 13, 608, and Plutarch's Life of Sulla
- 26. Supposedly the cache was Aristotle's own library, hidden by his
- heirs to prevent it being confiscated by the kings of Pergamum, and
- containing virtually all of the works which now survive. For a
- definitive working-over of this fable, see Hans Gottschalk's article
- 'Aristotelian Philosophy in the Roman World' in Aufstieg und Niedergang
- der Romischen Welt II 36.2. pp. 1079-1174, and especially pp. 1083-1088.
-
- Richard Wallace
-