Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia

Stefan Schorn is Professor of Ancient History at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on fragmentary Greek historiography and he is Editor-in-Chief of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature.Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, and especially on Aristotle and other Peripatetics. His most recent book is Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies, and among his current projects is an edition of the fragments of Aristotle’s lost Zoika.

• 1. Islands and their marvels as structural principles in the so-called historiographical section of the De mirabiles auscultationes - Irene Pajón Leyra; 2. Timaeus in pseudo-Aristotle's De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Stefan Schorn; 3. Pseudo-Aristotle, De mirabilibus auscultationibus 122-138 and Theopompos’ Philippica - Pietro Zaccaria; 4. De mirabilibus auscultationibus and Heracleides of Pontos - Kelly Shannon-Henderson; 5. Myth, marvels, and De mirabilibus auscultationibus - Robin J. Greene; 6. Homer and Homeric exegesis in pseudo-Aristotle's De mirabilibus auscultationibus 115 - Charles Delattre; 7. Suspicious toponyms in the De mirabilibus auscultationibus: Textual problems, "forgeries," and methodological issues - Ciro Giacomelli; 8. Pseudo-Plutarch’s On Rivers, the Mirabilia, Stobaeus 4.36, and paradoxographical literature - Søren Lund Sørensen.