The Aristotle Quest: Black Market Truth

413 Pages·2014·108.59 MB·English

by  Sharon M. Kaye

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BOOK ONE
Sharon Kaye
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The Aristotle quest : a Dana McCarter trilogy. Book I, Black market truth / Sharon
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ISBN 978-1-930972-30-8 (hard cover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-930972-31-5 (pbk. :
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1. Classical antiquities thefts—Fiction. 2. Aristotle—Manuscripts—Fiction.
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Preface and Acknowledgements
I had my first grown-up encounter with Aristotle as a brand-
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υδωρ γη new graduate student at the University of Toronto in 1992. I
was there to pursue a PhD in philosophy, but I hadn’t yet determined
my area of specialization.
I started hanging around with students working in the classics,
fascinated by the way they would spend hours and hours learning
dead laαnηgρuages πaυnρd discussing ancient history as though it were the
evening news.
One day, an announcement that the great Joseph Owens was to give
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a seminar on Aristotle generated considerable excitement among these
scholarly creatures. Father Owens, in his early eighties at that time,
was a world-renowned Aristotle scholar (he is now deceased). His talk
was to be given in the famous seminar room at the Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies, which had hosted many other great classicists,
beginning with the legendary Étienne Gilson in 1929.
Wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I decided to attend.
On the appointed day, I parked my bicycle outside the Pontifical
Institute and scurried inside just minutes before the seminar was to
begin. Out of breath and disoriented, I scanned the room. It was smaller
than I expected, dominated by a majestic old oak table. The table was
surrounded by chairs and there were benches all along the walls. The