A study of why the one maker of the Socratic–Peripatetic corpus divides, and how the division produces its readers. The dialogues filed under Plato form the desire and capacity to read; the treatises filed under Aristotle make demands the public form could not make directly and keep their value by a form that works only for the readers the dialogues have made; the working papers filed under Theophrastus convert…
An article in Machine-Mediated Reception Studies on Classical Receptions Journal (Oxford University Press) and the composition layer that now composes the classics, and the journal, for whoever asks. It states the received definition of a healthy flagship, which the journal meets, and contests that the definition defines a healthy journal: on the audit's counts (Daffodils, #1769) 153 of 185 abstracts hold the…