History of classical philology : from Bentley to the 20th century / edited by Diego Lanza, Gherardo Ugolini, translated by Antonella Lettieri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ugolini, Gherardo, editor.

Lanza, Diego, editor.

Lettieri, Antonella, translator.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Scholarship in the Making

Trends in Classics - Scholarship in the Making ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical philology--20th century.

Classical philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

An updated history of classical philology had long been a desideratum of scholars of the ancient world. The volume edited by Diego Lanza and Gherardo Ugolini is structured in three parts. In the first one (“Towards a science of antiquity”) the approach of Anglo-Saxon philology (R. Bentley) and the institutionalization of the discipline in the German academic world (C.G. Heyne and F.A. Wolf) are described. In the second part (“The illusion of the archetype. Classical Studies in the Germany of the 19th Century”) the theoretical contributions and main methodological disputes that followed are analysed (K. Lachmann, J.G. Hermann, A. Boeckh, F. Nietzsche and U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff). The last part (“The classical philology of the 20th century”) treats the redefinition of classical studies after the Great War in Germany (W. Jaeger) and in Italy (G. Pasquali). In this context, the contributions of papyrology and of the new images of antiquity that have emerged in the works of writers, narrators, and translators of our time have been considered. This part finishes with the presentation of some of the most influential scholars of the last decades (B. Snell, E.R. Dodds, J.-P. Vernant, B. Gentili, N. Loraux).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the Current Edition

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Towards a Science of Antiquity

Richard Bentley and Philology as the Art of Conjecture

Christian Gottlob Heyne: New Ways of Studying Antiquity

Friedrich August Wolf and the Birth of the Altertumswissenschaft

Humboldt, the Classical Gymnasium, and the University of Berlin

Part II: The Illusion of the Archetype. Classical Studies in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Karl Lachmann: Method and Science

Hermann contra Boeckh: Formal Philology and Historical Philology

Nietzsche and the Controversy over the Tragic

Wilamowitz: Philology as ‘Totality’

Part III: Classical Philology in the Twentieth- Century

Werner Jaeger and the Third Humanism

Giorgio Pasquali and Philology as a Historical Science

New Antiquities: The Papyri

Retelling Antiquity: Words and Images

Postwar Philology: New Perspectives

Works of Classical Philology: A Select Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110730388

3110730383