The classical commentary : histories, practices, theory / edited by Roy K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson, Roy K.

Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 232.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 232

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--Criticism, Textual.

Classical philology.

Criticism--Greece.

Criticism.

Criticism--Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary practice and theory, with special emphasis on Galen, Tzetzes, and La Cerda; the relationship between the author of the primary text, the commentary writer, and the reader; special problems posed by fragmentary and spurious texts; the role and scope of citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and revision; the practical future of commentary-writing and publication; and the way computers are changing the shape of the classical commentary. With a genesis in discussion panels mounted in the UK in 1996 and the US in 1997, the volume continues recent international dialogue on the genre and future of commentaries.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Roy K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

INTRODUCTION: READING COMMENTARIES/COMMENTARIES AS READING / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

STARTING FROM THE TELEMACHY / Stephanie West

A NARRATOLOGICAL COMMENTARY ON THE ODYSSEY: PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS / Irene J.F. de Jong

COMMENTING ON FRAGMENTS / Susan Stephens

THE SENSE OF AN AUTHOR: THEOCRITUS AND [THEOCRITUS] / Richard Hunter

\'A WOMAN DOES NOT BECOME AMBIDEXTROUS\': GALEN AND THE CULTURE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY / Heinrich von Staden

CLASSICAL COMMENTARY IN BYZANTIUM: JOHN TZETZES ON ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE / Felix Budelmann

JUAN LUIS DE LA CERDA AND THE PREDICAMENT OF COMMENTARY / Andrew Laird

THE WAY WE WERE: R. G. AUSTIN, IN CAELIANAM / John Henderson

THE XENOPHON FACTORY: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF SCHOOL EDITIONS OF XENOPHON'S ANABASIS / Albert Rijksbaron

BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS? HISTORIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARIES ON LATIN HISTORIANS / Rhiannon Ash

HANDLING A PHILOSOPHICAL TEXT / Christopher Rowe

TEXT AND COMMENTARY: THE EXAMPLE OF CICERO'S PHILOSOPHICA / Andrew R. Dyck

'CF. E.G.': A TYPOLOGY OF 'PARALLELS' AND THE FUNCTION OF COMMENTARIES ON LATIN POETRY / Roy Gibson

A NETWORK WITH A THOUSAND ENTRANCES: COMMENTARY IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE? / Willard McCarty

COMMENTING ON COMMENTARIES: A PRAGMATIC POSTSCRIPT / Elaine Fantham

INDEX / Roy K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46477-1

9786610464777

1-4175-3645-4

90-474-0094-1

OCLC:

171583028

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400943 DOI