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Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens [Athenaion Politeia] 3d rev ed

Kenyon, E.G., editor. Aristotle

The Recovery of Lost Antiquity: Kenyon's Definitive 1892 Edition of Aristotle's Constitution of Athens Kenyon, F.G., editor. Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens. [Athenaion Politeia]. Third and Revised Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Octavo. 9" x 6". lxvii, 229 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2003. ISBN-13: 9781584772613. Attractive smyth sewn gray cloth with blue and gilt stamped spine and front cover. New. $49.95 * Reprint of the third, revised, and expanded edition. This exceptional volume presents the foundational text of the Athenaion Politeia in its original Greek, compiled alongside fragmentary passages and relevant excerpts from the Politics. Sir Frederic G. Kenyon provides thorough textual annotations, critical apparatus, and an extensive introduction in English. This edition is of monumental historical and bibliographical significance, representing the rapid textual evolution that followed one of the greatest archaeological sensations of the nineteenth century. The text of the Constitution of Athens was entirely lost to the modern world for over a millennium until Kenyon famously identified it on an Egyptian papyrus acquired by the British Museum from a cache in Hermopolis, publishing the edition princeps in 1891. His initial transcription sparked fierce debate and intense scrutiny among global classicists. This third edition, issued just one year later, captures that immediate burst of international classical scholarship, incorporating the corrections and readings that established the definitive baseline for modern understanding of Athenian constitutional history, ancient law, and the origins of democracy.

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