Expurgating the classics editing out in Greek and Latin edited by Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, S. J., editor.

Stray, Christopher, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Expurgated books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bristol Classical Press 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial and Catullus to the expurgation of schoolboy texts, the Loeb Classical Library and the Penguin Classics. The contributors draw on evidence from the papers of editors, and on material in publishing archives. The introduction discusses both the different types of expurgation, and how it differs from related phenomena such as censorship."--Bloomsbury Publishing

In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial and Catullus to the expurgation of schoolboy texts, the Loeb Classical Library and the Penguin Classics. The contributors draw on evidence from the papers of editors, and on material in publishing archives. The introduction discusses both the different types of expurgation, and how it differs from related phenomena such as censorship

Contents:

Introduction: The Varieties of Expurgation

Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray

Expurgation in Early Greek Lyric

Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

'Seeing the Meat for What It Is': Probing Aristophanic Phallacies

Ian Ruffell (University of Glasgow)

Headlam's Herodas

Dan Orrells (Warwick University)

Flowers in the wilderness: Greek epigram in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Gideon Norbit

'Contempta Relinquas: Anxiety and Expurgation in Printed Editions of Lucretius' de rerum natura'

David Butterfield (Queens' College, Cambridge)

Expurgating Horace 1660-1900

Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Modifying Martial in Nineteenth-century Britain

T. J. Leary (Hampton School)

Catullus and 'Comment in English': The Tradition of the Expurgated Commentary Before Fordyce

Gail Trimble (Trinity College, Oxford)

'From Out the Schoolboy's Vision': Expurgation and the Young Reader

James Morwood (Wadham College, Oxford)

'For the Gentleman and the Scholar': Sexual and Scatological References in the Loeb Classical Library

Philip Lawton

How to Fillet a Penguin: Remarks on Bowdlerizing the Classics

Robert Crowe (Penguin Archive)

Afterword

Deborah H. Roberts

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472503008

1472503007

9781780934020

1780934025

9781472502995

147250299X

OCLC:

820011201