Brill's companion to ancient Greek scholarship / / Edited by Franco Montanari, Stephanos Matthaios, and Antonios Rengakos.

• Superior document: Brill's companions in classical studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Montanari, Franco.; Matthaios, Stephanos.; Rengakos, Antonios.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1532 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship aims at providing a reference work in the field of ancient Greek and Byzantine scholarship and grammar, thus encompassing the broad and multifaceted philological and linguistic research activity during the entire Greek Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first part of the volume offers a thorough historical overview of ancient scholarship, which covers the period from its very beginnings to the Byzantine era. The second part focuses on the disciplinary profile of ancient scholarship by investigating its main scientific topics. The third and final part presents the particular work of ancient scholars in various philological and linguistic matters, and also examines the place of scholarship and grammar from an interdisciplinary point of view, especially from their interrelation with rhetoric, philosophy, medicine and nature sciences.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material Volume 1 -- 1 Greek Scholarship from its Beginnings to Alexandria / Anna Novokhatko -- 2 Hellenistic Scholarship / Fausto Montana -- 3 Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity / Stephanos Matthaios -- 4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529–1453) / Filippomaria Pontani -- 1 The Sources of our Knowledge of Ancient Scholarship / Eleanor Dickey -- 2 Definitions of Grammar / Alfons Wouters and Pierre Swiggers -- 3 Typology of Philological Writings / Markus Dubischar -- 4 Typology of Grammatical Treatises / Stefano Valente -- 5 Typology of Lexicographical Works / Renzo Tosi -- Preliminary Material Volume 2 -- 1 Ekdosis. A Product of the Ancient Scholarship / Franco Montanari -- 2 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer / Richard Hunter -- 3 Poetics and Literary Criticism in the Framework of Ancient Greek Scholarship / René Nünlist -- 1 Description of the Constituent Elements of the (Greek) Language / Pierre Swiggers and Alfons Wouters -- 2 Language Correctness (Hellenismos) and Its Criteria / Lara Pagani -- 3 Syntax / Jean Lallot -- 4 Ancient Etymology: A Tool for Thinking / Ineke Sluiter -- 5 Ancient Theory of Prosody / Philomen Probert -- 6 Orthography / Stefano Valente -- 1 Grammatical Theory and Rhetorical Teaching / Casper C. de Jonge -- 2 Philological Observations and Approaches to Language in the Philosophical Context / Walter Lapini -- 3 Mythography / Claudio Meliadò -- 4 Historiography, Ethnography, Geography / Roberto Nicolai -- 5 Medicine and Exegesis / Daniela Manetti -- 6 Hellenistic Astronomers and Scholarship / Raffaele Luiselli -- 7 On the Interface of Philology and Science: The Case of Zoology / Oliver Hellmann -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Passages Index.