| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 709 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book aims to offer a unified historical treatment of all that is usually understood as "ancient scholarship" or "ancient philology" and is the first modern work to cover a period from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium after John Edwin Sandys' work published between 1903-1908. The field "ancient scholarship" includes the exegesis of Greek authors, the editing of their texts, orderly collections of materials useful for exegetical purposes - such as lexeis, onomatologies, collections of antiquarian materials et similia -, the study of grammar, reflection on language, and everything that can be linked to this sphere, that is to say literature and the instruments for interpreting it. If it is hard today to imagine such a work being undertaken by a single scholar, it is worth underlining the benefits offered by a volume with multiple expert voices in a field so complex and multiform. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been enlarged, updated and rethought"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The origins and growth of scholarship in pre-Hellenistic Greece / Anna Novokhatko -- Hellenistic scholarship / Fausto Montana -- Greek scholarship in the Imperial era and Late Antiquity / Stephanos Matthaios -- Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529-1453) / Filippomaria Pontani. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek philology -- History.
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature |
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Greek philology |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Added Author |
Montanari, Franco, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History of ancient Greek scholarship. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020 9789004427402 (DLC) 2020009940 |
| ISBN |
9004430571 (electronic book) |
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9789004430570 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004427402 (paperback) |
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