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Thursday, March 19, 2009
by: Miriam Lyons Frolow, M.P.A.

Robert Mayhew, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, has received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant from Harvard University to support his work in preparing a Greek text, with translation, of the Aristotelian PROBLEMATA. When completed, the work will be published, in two volumes, by Harvard University Press, as part of their prestigious Loeb Classical Library series. The Loeb Classical Library Foundation awards grants to qualified scholars to support research, publication, and other projects in the area of classical studies.
 
Dr. Mayhew's area of expertise is ancient philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. His most recent books are The Female in Aristotle's Biology (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and Plato: Laws 10, translation and commentary (Oxford University Press, 2008).
 
The present project represents his first foray into the development of Aristotelian thought after Aristotle. The PROBLEMATA is the third longest work in the Corpus Aristotelicum, and was likely written by philosophers in the school of Aristotle for the most part in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BCE. It covers a wide variety of subjects, such as medicine and biology, wine and drunkenness, justice and injustice, music theory, and melancholy and intelligence. Although highly influential in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it is only beginning to receive close attention by contemporary scholars.

For more information please contact:
Robert Mayhew, Ph.D.
(973) 761-9480
mayhewro@shu.edu