| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 533 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
Form and content / Christina S. Kraus, C.A. Stray -- Part 1. Individuals : commentaries and modern commentators. -- Jebb's sophocles / P.J. Finglass -- A teutonic monster in Oxford : the making of Fraenkel's agamemnon / Christopher Stray -- My back pages / Richard F. Thomas -- Two-author commentaries on Horace : the case studies / Stephen Harrison -- Dodd's bacchae / S.P. Oakley -- Part 2. Traditions : commentaries on specific authors and texts. -- Commentary writing on the Annals of Tacitus : different approaches for different audiences / Salvador Bartera -- Commenting on fragments : the case of Ennius' annales / Jakie Elliott -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : text conjecture in Greek lyric commentary / Armand D'Angour -- Philosophers, exegetes, scholars : the ancient philosophical commentary from Plato to simplicius / Han Baltussen -- Italian commentaries on Lucretius / Guido Milanese -- Citations of Ovid in Virgil's ancient commentators / Justin Haynes -- The historical commentary / John Davies -- Part 3. Material, form, series, markets. -- Selling terence in Reainssance Italy : the marketing power of commentary / Paul F. Gehl -- From Giovanni Pontano to Pierio Valeriano : five Resaissance commentators on Latin erotic poetry / Julia Haig Gaisser -- Translation and commentary : Pope's Iliad / Stuart Gillespie -- Agricolan paratexts / Christina S. Kraus -- Fifty shades of orange : Cambridge classical texts and commentaries / Roy Gibson -- Part 4. Reception : history of commentary. -- Hipparchus among the detractors? / Caroline Bishop -- Ancient commentaries on Theocritus' Idylls and Virgil's eclogues / Joseph Farrell -- Biblical exegesis and the welfth-century expansion of servius / A.B. Kraebel -- Christian Gottlob Heyne and the changing fortunes of the commentary in the age of altertumswissenschaft / Katherine Harloe -- Jean-François Vauvilliers and pindaric commentary / Penelope Wilson -- Part 5. Futures : commentaries and the web. -- Heracles' choice : thoughts on the virtues of print and digital commentary / Peter J. Anderson -- The dream of a universal variorum : digitizing the commentary tradition / Peter Heslin -- The future of antiquity : an afterword / Sander M. Goldberg |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- Criticism, Textual
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Classical literature -- Study and teaching
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Classical languages -- Study and teaching
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Learning and scholarship.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Classical languages -- Study and teaching
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Classical literature
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Classical literature -- Study and teaching
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Learning and scholarship
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958- editor.
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Stray, Christopher, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191002892 |
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0191002895 |
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9780191768088 |
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0191768081 |
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