Classical Commentaries
Explorations in a Scholarly Genre
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2015
592 pages
978-0-19-100289-2 (ISBN)
Description
This rich collection of essays by an international group of scholars explores commentaries in many different languages on ancient Latin and Greek texts. The commentaries discussed range from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Together, the chapters contribute to the dialogue between two vibrant and developing fields of study: the history of scholarship and the history of the book. The volume pays particular attention to individual commentaries, national traditions of commentary, the part played by commentaries in the reception of classical texts, and the role of printing and publishing. The material form of commentaries is also considered-including how they are advertised and their accompanying illustrations-as well as their role in education. Both academic texts and books written for schools are surveyed.
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Christina S. Kraus is Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin at Yale University
Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University
Content
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- 1: Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray: Form and Content
- Part 1: Individuals: Commentaries and Modern Commentators
- 2: P. J. Finglass: Jebb's Sophocles
- 3: Christopher Stray: A Teutonic Monster in Oxford: The Making of Fraenkel's Agamemnon
- 4: Richard F. Thomas: My Back Pages
- 5: Stephen Harrison: Two-author Commentaries on Horace: Three Case Studies
- 6: S. P. Oakley: Dodd's Bacchae
- Part 2: Traditions: Commentaries on Specific Authors and Texts
- 7: Salvador Bartera: Commentary Writing on the Annals of Tacitus: Different Approaches for Different Audiences
- 8: Jackie Elliott: Commenting on Fragments: The Case of Early Roman Poetry
- 9: Armand D'Angour: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Text and Conjecture in Greek Lyric Commentary
- 10: Han Baltussen: Philosophers, Exegetes, Scholars: The Ancient Philosophical Commentary from Plato to Simplicius
- 11: Guido Milanese: Italian Commentaries on Lucretius
- 12: Justin Haynes: Citations of Ovid in Virgil's Ancient Commentators
- 13: John Davies: The Historical Commentary
- Part 3: Material: Form, Series, Markets
- 14: Paul F. Gehl: Selling Terence in Renaissance Italy: The Marketing Power of Commentary
- 15: Julia Gaisser: From Giovanni Pontano to Pierio Valeriano: Five renaissance Commentators on Latin Erotic Poetry
- 16: Stuart Gillespie: Translation and Commentary: Pope's Iliad
- 17: Christina S. Kraus: Agricolan Paratexts
- 18: Roy Gibson: Fifty Shades of Orange: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
- Part 4: Reception: History of Commentary
- 19: Caroline Bishop: Hipparchus Among the Detractors
- 20: Joseph Farrell: Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus' Idylls and Vergil's Eclogues
- 21: A. B. Kraebel: Biblical Exegesis and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Servius
- 22: Katherine Harloe: Christian Gottlob Heyne and the Changing Fortunes of the Commentary in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft
- 23: Penelope Wilson: Vauvilliers' Pindar and its Place in Pindaric Commentary
- Part 5: Futures: Commentaries and the Web
- 24: Peter J. Anderson: Heracles' Choice: Thoughts on the Virtues of Print and Digital Commentary
- 25: Peter Heslin: The Dream of a Universal Variorum: Digitizing the Commentary Tradition
- 26: Sander M. Goldberg: Afterword
- Index
