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 cont...

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