| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture
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Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Writing and literature in antiquity -- Grammar, scholarship, and scribal practice from antiquity to the middle ages -- Classical reception from antiquity to the middle ages -- Classics and humanists -- Classical texts in the age of printing -- Tools for the modern scholar. |
| Summary |
Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in perhaps the eighth century BC survive across nearly three millennia, so that today people can read them electronically on a smartphone? Classics from Papyrus to the Internet provides a fresh, authoritative overview of the transmission and reception of classical texts from antiquity to the present. The authors begin with a discussion of ancient literacy, book production, papyrology, epigraphy, and scholarship, and then examine how classical texts were transmitted from the medieval period through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the modern era. They also address the question of reception, looking at how succeeding generations responded to classical texts, preserving some but not others. This sheds light on the origins of numerous scholarly disciplines that continue to shape our understanding of the past, as well as the determined effort required to keep the literary tradition alive. As a resource for students and scholars in fields such as classics, medieval studies, comparative literature, paleography, papyrology, and Egyptology, this book presents and discusses the major reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Classical philology -- History and criticism.
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Classical philology. |
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Learning and scholarship -- History.
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Learning and scholarship. |
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History. |
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Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations.
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Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations. |
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Communication in learning and scholarship. |
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Communication and technology -- History.
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Paleography, Greek -- History.
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Communication and technology. |
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Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
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Paleography, Greek. |
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Written communication -- History.
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Written communication. |
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Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Smith, R. Alden, author.
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Stok, Fabio, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hunt, Jeffrey Michael. Classics from papyrus to the internet. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 9781477313015 (DLC) 2016055397 (OCoLC)961009761 |
| ISBN |
9781477313039 (electronic book) |
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1477313036 (electronic book) |
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9781477313046 (nonlibrary e-book) |
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1477313044 (nonlibrary e-book) |
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9781477313015 |
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147731301X |
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9781477313022 |
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1477313028 |
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