Latin Literature and its Transmission

Latin Literature and its Transmission
Author: Richard Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107116279

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A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship.

Latin Literature and Its Transmission

Latin Literature and Its Transmission
Author: Richard L. Hunter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2016
Genre: Latin literature
ISBN: 9781316562666

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Scribes and Scholars

Scribes and Scholars
Author: L. D. Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199686335

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It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to preserve them for future generations. In this 4th edition adjustments have been made to the text and the notes have been revised in order to take account of advances in scholarship over the last twenty years.

Scribes and Scholars

Scribes and Scholars
Author: Leighton Durham Reynolds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1974
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Texts and Transmission

Texts and Transmission
Author: Peter Kenneth Marshall
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1986
Genre:
ISBN:

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Beyond Greek

Beyond Greek
Author: Denis Feeney
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674496043

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A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist

Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature

Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature
Author: Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2013-03-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110303698

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Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.

Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts

Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts
Author: S. P. Oakley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0198848722

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This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably in the first century AD, and the translation into Latin by Lucius Septimius of the spoof history of the Trojan War, allegedly written at the time of that war by a certain Dictys Cretensis. Drawing on in excess of 200 witnesses, the analysis reveals how the text of Curtius in all our extant manuscripts descends from one damaged copy that survived from the Roman Empire into the Middle Ages, and how the text of Dictys survived in two such copies. It demonstrates that clear and decisive results can be achieved by application of the so-called stemmatic method, and how the application of those results will lead to several improvements to our standard text of Dictys. As well as determining which manuscripts future editors should use in editing these texts and examining them in detail, it also offers equally full discussion of those which will not be needed, establishing many localizations and derivations. The result is a large body of material that will help deepen our knowledge of the transmission of classical Latin texts, especially in the Renaissance, as well as our knowledge of scribal practice and of techniques that can be deployed in the genealogical study of manuscripts and incunables.

Texts, Editors, and Readers

Texts, Editors, and Readers
Author: Richard John Tarrant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521766575

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A critical reassessment of the methods of Latin textual criticism and editing, in a form accessible to non-specialists.

Latinitas Perennis. Volume I: The Continuity of Latin Literature

Latinitas Perennis. Volume I: The Continuity of Latin Literature
Author: Jan Papy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047410696

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This volume deals with the question of the continuity of Latin literature throughout its history. For the first time, contributions are brought together from each of the three fields within the studies of Latin literature: Classical, Medieval and Neo-Latin, reflecting on problems such as the transmission of the Latin heritage, the creation and perpetuation of a classical normativeness and the reactions against it. The book is divided into three parts, corresponding to the theoretical principle of organic development: “Beginnings?”, “Perfections?”, “Transitions?”, thus questioning the validity of a similar evolutionistic model. Because of the numerous points of contact between Latin and the national literatures, the volume is of particular relevance for the studies of the European literary history. Contributors include: Davide Canfora, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, Sander Goldberg, Thomas Haye, Marc van der Poel, Michael Roberts, Francesco Stella, Wim Verbaal, Gregor Vogt-Spira, and Jan Ziolkowski.