Tudomány és irodalom a hellenizmus korában
Science and literature in the age of Hellenism

Summary/Abstract: Researchers long have been concerned about the authorship of De mundo that was falsely ascribed to Aristotle. The article argues that it was a mistaken starting point to look for the anonymous author in an ancient Greek school of philosophy, because the book should have been written in a school of rhetoric. It is not a philosophical, but rather a rhetoric work. The view which became widespread in later ages that Arsitotle wrote esoteric and exoteric works, needs a reinterpretation in the knowledge of the tradition of schools of rhetoric: the so-called exoteric books should have been written in schools of rhetoric, and they were already attributed in that tradition to Aristotle. These works are the well-known books of Pseudo-Aristotle: De mundo, Secreta secretorum, etc.

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