From: "Matthew Isaac Cohen" <M.Cohen-AT-tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk>
To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:38:23 -0000
Subject: [Puptcrit] Hero's Automatopoietikes


John Bell asks:

>Do you know where that Hero text Peri Automatopoietikes might be found?
Maybe we should try to translate it....

The standard scholarly redaction of Automatopoietikes can be found in the
5-volume German edition of Hero of Alexandria's complete works, Heronis
Alexandrini Opera qvae svpersvnt omnia (Lipsiae, 1899-1914), published as
part of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
series.

The German translation is available online at
http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N025186

I think an English translation is a terrific idea. Hero of Alexandria's work
has canonical importance, but like most people I know it only through the
secondary literature. Perhaps some classicist might be persuaded to take an
interest in puppetry...?

Matthew

Matthew Isaac Cohen, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies
University of Glasgow
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Glasgow G12 8QQ
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