The Continuity of Classical Literature Through Fragmentary Traditions / / ed. by Francesco Ginelli, Francesco Lupi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Berardi, Roberta,; Ginelli, Francesco,; Iovine, Giulio,; Lupi, Francesco,; Meccariello, Chiara,; Vecchiato, Stefano,; Villagra, Nereida,; Welsh, Jarrett T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ginelli, Francesco,; Lupi, Francesco,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 105
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 216 p.)

Fragmentary texts play a central role in Classics. Their study poses a stimulating challenge to scholars and readers, while its methods and principles, far from being rigidly immutable, invite constant reflection on its methods, approaches, and goals. By focusing on some of the most relevant issues that fragmentologists have to face, this book contributes to the ongoing and lively debate on the study of fragmentary texts.This volume contains an extensive theoretical introduction on the study of textual fragments, followed by eight essays on a wide variety of topics relevant to the study of fragmentary texts across literary genres. The chapters range from archaic Greek epics (the Hesiodic corpus) to late-antique grammarian Nonius Marcellus as a source of fragments of Republican literature. All contributions share a nuanced, critical attention to the main methodological implications of the study of fragmentary texts and mutually contribute to highlighting the field’s common specificities and limitations, both in theory and in editorial practice.The book offers a representative spectrum of fragmentological issues, providing all readers with an interest in Classics with an up-to-date, methodologically aware approach to the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Marginalia to Hesiodic Fragments -- To Belong or not to Belong -- ‘Well Begun is Half Done’? -- Collecting Fragments for a Fragmentary Literary Genre -- The New Nepos -- The Fifth Glossary of Nonius Marcellus -- Mythographus Homericus, Ἱστορίαι and Fragmentary Mythographers -- The Unruly Fragments -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index Locorum