History of Ancient Greek Scholarship

From the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42740-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 712 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1068 g

This book aims to offer a unified historical treatment of all that is usually understood as “ancient scholarship” or “ancient philology” and is the first modern work to cover a period from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium after John Edwin Sandys’ work published between 1903-1908. The field “ancient scholarship” includes the exegesis of Greek authors, the editing of their texts, orderly collections of materials useful for exegetical purposes – such as lexeis, onomatologies, collections of antiquarian materials et similia –, the study of grammar, reflection on language, and everything that can be linked to this sphere, that is to say literature and the instruments for interpreting it. If it is hard today to imagine such a work being undertaken by a single scholar, it is worth underlining the benefits offered by a volume with multiple expert voices in a field so complex and multiform. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been enlarged, updated and rethought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Montanari, Franco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 The Origins and Growth of Scholarship in Pre-Hellenistic Greece

Anna Novokhatko

1 Social Premises and Conditions Leading to the Establishment of Scholarship

2 Social Institutions that Assisted in the Development of Scholarship

3 Philological Approaches in Pre-Alexandrian Greece

2 Hellenistic Scholarship

Fausto Montana

1 Preliminaries

2 Alexandrian Scholarship to 144 BC

3 The Spread of Scholarship in the 2nd and 1st Centuries

3 Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity

Stephanos Matthaios

1 State of Research, Presuppositions and Focal Points of a Historical Survey

2 Philology and Grammar in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity in Context

3 Persons, Works and Achievements

4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529–1453)

Filippomaria Pontani

1 From Justinian to Iconoclasm

2 From the Byzantine Revival to the Age of Encyclopedism

3 From Basil II to the Fourth Crusade

4 From Nicaea to the Palaeologan Renaissance

5 The Last Century of Byzantium

Bibliography

General Index

Passages Index

Über Autor(innen)

Franco Montanari is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Genoa (Italy). He is the Director of the Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, of the book series Pleiadi (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura), of the Aristarchus project online, and co-editor of the journal and the book series Trends in Classics (De Gruyter).

He is the author of the new Greek-Italian Dictionary GI - Vocabolario della Lingua Greca and of the English edition The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (Brill). He is co-editor of the Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity (Brill) and the Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum (Brill) and has published many academic works on ancient scholarship and grammar, archaic Greek epic poets and other Greek poets of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, including Brill’s Companion to Hesiod (2009) and Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015).