Interpreting a Classic - Demosthenes & His Ancient Commentators

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-520-22956-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Demosthenes (384-322 b.c.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly lost tradition of ancient scholarship, Craig A. Gibson tells the story of how one group of ancient scholars helped their readers understand this man's writings. This book collects for the first time, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes. Using these texts to illuminate an important aspect of Graeco-Roman antiquity that has hitherto been difficult to glimpse, Gibson gives a detailed portrait of a scholarly industry that touched generations of ancient readers from the first century b.c. to the fifth century and beyond.

In this lucidly organized work, Gibson surveys the physical form of the commentaries, traces the history of how they were passed down, and explains their sources, interests, and readership. He also includes a complete collection of Greek texts, English translations, and detailed notes on the commentaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Craig A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One. The Ancient Commentaries on Demosthenes
1. Form and Transmission

2. Sources, Agenda, and Readership

3. Didymus

Part Two. Texts, Translations, and Notes
1. Commentary on Dem. 9–11 and 13 (P.Berol.inv. 9780)

2. Didymus Fragments in Harpocration

3. Lexicon to Dem. 23 (P.Berol.inv. 5008)

4. Commentary on Dem. 5 (P.Berol.inv. 21188)

5. Commentary on Dem. 22 (P.Stras.inv. 84)

6. Lexicon to Dem. 21 (P.Rain.inv. 7)

Appendix: Rhetorical Prologue and Commentary on Dem. 21 (P.Lond.Lit. 179)

Bibliography

General Index

Index Verborum

Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Craig A. Gibson is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa.