The Loeb Classical Library(洛布古典丛书)是一套完整收录西方古代重要作家作品的大型文献资料丛书。这套丛书专门收录古希腊和罗马时期的文献典籍,几乎涵盖全部古希腊文和拉丁文典籍,共收录210多位古典作家的作品,目前已出版500多卷,由哈佛大学出版社出版发行。该丛书采用古希腊文-英文或拉丁文-英文对照的方式进行排版,其中希腊文作品为绿色封面,拉丁文作品为红色封面。丛书收录的古典文献包含史诗、抒情诗、悲剧、喜剧、历史、游记、哲学、演说辞,以及医学、数学等领域流传下来的几乎所有的古典作品。除了译文之外,还为读者提供相关的引言、注释以及参考文献。创始人詹姆斯·洛布 (James Loeb)曾在首批出版的丛书中阐明了这套丛书的使命:“我给自己设定的目标,是通过翻译来普及古希腊罗马伟大作家的优美、博学、睿智与哲思,并将译文和精校后的原文对照出版。这些译文本身就是绝佳的文学作品,能令人享受阅读之乐,而非枯燥乏味的直译。后者虽然处处暗示着更加精妙的原文,但却令普通读者望而却步。” 洛布古典丛书集全面性、权威性、可靠性与可读性为一身,是广大读者了解古希腊罗马文化的最佳窗口。 Antiquity’s most influential account of life’s Supreme Good.
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–342 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.
Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows:
I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics, and metaphysics.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
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