Ancient Scholarship and Grammar : : Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts / / ed. by Stephanos Matthaios, Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Ax, Wolfram,; Basset, Louis,; Billerbeck, Margarethe,; Bing, Peter,; Bonnet, Guillaume,; Braswell, Bruce Karl,; Chriti, Maria,; Chronopoulos, Stelios,; Elst, Valerie van,; Fantuzzi, Marco,; Hunter, Richard,; Lallot, Jean,; Lambert, Frédéric,; Luhtala, Anneli,; Lundon, John,; Matthaios, Stephanos,; Montanari, Franco,; Nünlist, René,; Pontani, Filippomaria,; Probert, Philomen,; Schmidt, Martin,; Sluiter, Ineke,; Spanoudakis, Konstantinos,; Swiggers, Pierre,; Visser, Louise,; Wouters, Alfons,; de Jonge, Casper C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Matthaios, Stephanos,; Montanari, Franco,; Rengakos, Antonios,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.)

Ancient Greek scholarship is currently in the centre of a multi-faceted and steadily growing research activity. The volume aims at investigating archetypes, concepts and contexts of the ancient philological discipline from a historical, methodological and ideological perspective. It includes 26 contributions by leading scholars divided into four sections: The ancient scholars at work, The ancient grammarians on Greek language and linguistic correctness, Ancient grammar in historical context and Ancient grammar in interdisciplinary context. The period examined coincides with the establishment of scholarship as an autonomous discipline from the 3rd century BC to its peak in the first centuries AD. Archetypes and paradigms of philological activity during the classical era help investigate the origins of ancient scholarship, and the interdisciplinary discourse between scholarship, philosophy of language and rhetoric is illustrated. Thus, the thematic spectrum of the volume stretches from the 4th century BC to the Byzantine era. Apart from the Greek antiquity, central aspects of the Latin grammatical tradition are also being examined.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. “Philologia perennis”: History and New Perspectives -- Ancient Scholarship and Classical Studies -- II. The Ancient Scholars at Work -- Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship -- Scholarly Panic: παυικός φόβος, Homeric Philology and the Beginning of the Rhesus -- Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Readings of his ‘Grammar’ Definition -- Ex Homero grammatica -- Aristarchus and Allegorical Interpretation -- Portrait of an Unknown Scholiast -- Homeric Commentaries on Papyrus: A Survey -- Didymus on Pindar -- Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: The Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides -- Re-writing the Personal Joke: Some Aspects in the Interpretation of όυομαστί κωμῳδεῖυ in Ancient Scholarship -- Ancient Scholia and Lost Identities: The Case of Simichidas -- III. The Ancient Grammarians on the Greek Language and Linguistic Correctness -- Did the Alexandrian Grammarians have a Sense of History? -- Apollonius between Homeric and Hellenistic Greek: The Case of the ‘Pre-positive Article’ -- Attic Irregularities: Their Reinterpretation in the Light of Atticism -- A Champion of Analogy: Herodian’s On Lexical Singularity -- IV. Ancient Grammar in Historical Context -- New Papyri and the History of Ancient Grammar: The έπίρρημα Chapter in P. Berol. 9917 -- Quintilian’s ‘Grammar’ (Inst.1.4-8) and its Importance for the History of Roman Grammar -- Syntax before Syntax: Uses of the Term σύνταξις in Greek Grammarians before Apollonius Dyscolus -- Syntagms in the Artigraphic Latin Grammars -- Latin Grammatical Manuals in the Early Middle Ages: Tradition and Adaptation in the Participle Chapter -- Theodosius and his Byzantine Successors on the Participle: A Didactic Approach -- The Orus Fragments in the Ethnica of Stephanus of Byzantium -- V. Ancient Grammar in Interdisciplinary Context -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Scholia on Thucydides’ Syntax -- Imposition of Names in Ancient Grammar and Philosophy -- Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle: The ‘Arbitrariness of the Linguistic Sign’ -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Passages Index