Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University (New Jersey). He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, especially on Aristotle and other early Peripatetics. His books include an edition of the Aristotelian Problemata physica in the Loeb Classical Library (2011), Prodicus the Sophist: Texts, Translations & Commentary (Oxford UP, 2011), a critical edition, with translation and commentary, of Theophrastus’ On Winds (Brill, 2018), and Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems: Textual Studies (Oxford UP, 2019). He is the co-editor of two collections of essays on the Aristotelian De mirabilibus auscultationibus (forthcoming from Routledge in 2024), and he has prepared the text and translation of this work for a forthcoming collection of Aristotelian opuscula (of which he is also general editor) for the Loeb Classical Library. Among his recent journal articles are “Sacred sneezes in Aristotle, Historia animalium 1.11 and [Aristotle], Problemata physica 33.7 & 9” (Erga-Logoi: Rivista di storia, letteratura, diritto e culture dell’antichità), “Odysseus left sleeping: A note on a possible fragment from Aristotle’s Homeric Problems” (Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie), and “‘Porphyry’ and ancient scholarship on Iliad 10.252-253: Edition, Translation and Discussion,” Gertjan Verhasselt co-author (Trends in Classics 2021), and he is the author of the entry “ζήτημα/πρόβλημα/ἀπορία” for the forthcoming Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon (Princeton UP). Mayhew was recently (May – June 2023) a LECTIO Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, where he worked on his current major project: an edition of the texts, with translation and commentary, of the fragments of Aristotle’s lost Zoϊka.
