Processes of Tradition Building in the Works of Aristotle (A04)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: since 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397

The project examines the dynamics of tradition building in ancient Aristotelianism. In order to gain a particularly wide field of inquiry, the project will set the practices of reading and teaching manifest in the transmission of de interpretatione in Greek late antiquity, in Rome and in Byzantine manuscripts (supported by computer-aided analysis) in relation to an examination of the argumentative strategies in Aristotle’s Rhetorics and Politics, where Aristotle is in dialogue with his predecessors and rivals. The project aims to demonstrate that Aristotle’s works set a model for the practices of tradition building used by later Aristotelians.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 980: Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann