
Culture In Pieces
Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons
Oxford University Press
Published on 16. June 2011
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-19-929201-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1989 to 2003. The contributors, who are former pupils, colleagues or collaborators with Peter Parsons, share a deep admiration for him and his work. Peter Parsons has, throughout his career, been engaged in research on newly discovered papyrus texts, and such texts play an important part in this volume's discussions. He has also constantly sought to use these texts to illuminate the literary and cultural history of antiquity. The essays in this volume are suitably diverse, reflecting the broad interests of the honorand: they straddle prose and verse, literary and subliterary texts, addressing both theoretical issues and specific practical problems of interpretation which contribute to the difficulties faced in giving form and meaning to the diverse and fragmentary evidence of ancient literary history - to give some kind of partial unity to 'culture in pieces'.
Broader topics considered include the methodology of editing fragments, the problems of identifying authorship (New Comedy being treated as a test case), the ambiguities of texts which may or may not be read as ironic, and the development of the Greek novel. Among major authors treated are Pindar, Euripides, Menander, Callimachus, and Ovid. The volume also includes an introduction outlining Peter Parsons's career and achievements, and a bibliography of his publications.
Broader topics considered include the methodology of editing fragments, the problems of identifying authorship (New Comedy being treated as a test case), the ambiguities of texts which may or may not be read as ironic, and the development of the Greek novel. Among major authors treated are Pindar, Euripides, Menander, Callimachus, and Ovid. The volume also includes an introduction outlining Peter Parsons's career and achievements, and a bibliography of his publications.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
16 in text and 24 colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-929201-1 (9780199292011)
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Persons
Dirk Obbink has held positions at Columbia and Ann Arbor. He was appointed University Lecturer in Papyrology in 1995 and has taught in Oxford since.
Richard Rutherford has been Tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982.
Richard Rutherford has been Tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982.
Editor
Lecturer in Papyrology and Tutor in Greek, Christ Church Oxford University
Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature, Christ Church College, Oxford University.
Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; INTRODUCTION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PETER PARSONS ; INDEXES