Iphigenias at Aulis : : Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology / / Sean Alexander Gurd.
How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits-and the accomplishments-of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics.Sean Alexander Gurd takes as his starting point the case...
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