The classical commentary : histories, practices, theory / / edited by Roy K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.

This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 232
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Year of Publication:2002
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 232.
Physical Description:1 online resource (454 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Roy K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
  • INTRODUCTION: READING COMMENTARIES/COMMENTARIES AS READING / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
  • STARTING FROM THE TELEMACHY / Stephanie West
  • A NARRATOLOGICAL COMMENTARY ON THE ODYSSEY: PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS / Irene J.F. de Jong
  • COMMENTING ON FRAGMENTS / Susan Stephens
  • THE SENSE OF AN AUTHOR: THEOCRITUS AND [THEOCRITUS] / Richard Hunter
  • \'A WOMAN DOES NOT BECOME AMBIDEXTROUS\': GALEN AND THE CULTURE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY / Heinrich von Staden
  • CLASSICAL COMMENTARY IN BYZANTIUM: JOHN TZETZES ON ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE / Felix Budelmann
  • JUAN LUIS DE LA CERDA AND THE PREDICAMENT OF COMMENTARY / Andrew Laird
  • THE WAY WE WERE: R. G. AUSTIN, IN CAELIANAM / John Henderson
  • THE XENOPHON FACTORY: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF SCHOOL EDITIONS OF XENOPHON'S ANABASIS / Albert Rijksbaron
  • BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS? HISTORIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARIES ON LATIN HISTORIANS / Rhiannon Ash
  • HANDLING A PHILOSOPHICAL TEXT / Christopher Rowe
  • TEXT AND COMMENTARY: THE EXAMPLE OF CICERO'S PHILOSOPHICA / Andrew R. Dyck
  • 'CF. E.G.': A TYPOLOGY OF 'PARALLELS' AND THE FUNCTION OF COMMENTARIES ON LATIN POETRY / Roy Gibson
  • A NETWORK WITH A THOUSAND ENTRANCES: COMMENTARY IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE? / Willard McCarty
  • COMMENTING ON COMMENTARIES: A PRAGMATIC POSTSCRIPT / Elaine Fantham
  • INDEX / Roy K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.