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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462859903321

Autore

Conte Gian Biagio <1941->

Titolo

Ope ingenii : experiences of textual criticism / / Gian Biagio Conte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-11-031285-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Disciplina

880.09

Soggetti

Classical literature - History and criticism

Criticism, Textual

Transmission of texts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Punctuation -- Interpolation and athetesis -- Corruption and conjecture.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. All Greek and Latin passages included are literally translated and commented step by step. Advanced students and scholars are offered an orderly sequence of ‘cruces’ healed by great philologists so that a teaching route is granted.