
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy
Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
Casey Due(Editor)
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2009
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-0-674-03202-6 (ISBN)
Description
Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
75 color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 241 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03202-6 (9780674032026)
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Casey Due is Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. Graeme D. Bird is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Gordon College. Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.