Classical commentaries : explorations in a scholarly genre / / Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetto topico: History - Sources
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Persona (resp. second.): KrausChristina A.; StrayChristopher
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Form and content / Christina S. Kraus (Yale) and C.A. Stray (Swansea). Part 1 : Individuals: commentaries and modern commentators. Jebb's sophocles / P.J. Finglass (Nottingham) -- A teutonic monster in Oxford : the making of Fraenkel's agamemnon / Christopher Stray (Swansea) -- My back pages / Richard F. Thomas (Harvard) -- Two-author commentaries on Horace : the case studies / Stephen Harrison (Oxford) -- Dodd's bacchae / S.P. Oakley (Cambridge). Part 2 : traditions : commentaries on specific authors and texts. Commentary writing on the annals of tacitus : different approaches for different audiences / Salvador Bartera (Mississippi State) -- Commenting on fragments : the case of Ennius' annales / Jakie Elliott (Boulder) -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : text xonjecture in Greek lyric commentary / Armand D'Angour (Oxford) -- Philosophers, exegetes, scholars : the ancient philosophical commentary from Plato to simplicius / Han Baltussen (Adelaide) -- Italian commentaries on Lucretius / Guido Milanese (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) -- Citations of Ovid in Virgil's ancient commentators / Justin Haynes (UCLA) -- The historical commentary / John Davies (Liverpool). Part 3 : Material, form, series, markets. Selling terence in Reainssance Italy : the marketing power of commentary / Paul F. Gehl (Newberry Library) -- From Giovanni Pontano to Pierio Valeriano : five Resaissance commentators on Latin erotic poetry / Julia Haig Gaisser (Bryn Mawr) -- Translation and commentary : Pope's Iliad / Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow) -- Agricolan paratexts / Christina S. Kraus (Yale) -- Fifty shades of orange : Cambridge classical texts and commentaries / Roy Gibson (Manchester). Part 4 : Reception : history of commentary. Hipparchus among the detractors? / Caroline Bishop (Bloomington) -- Ancient commentaries on Theocritus' Idylls and Virgil's eclogues / Joseph Farrell (Penn) -- Biblical exegesis and the welfth-century expansion of servius / A.B. Kraebel (Trinity University) -- Christian Gottlob Heyne and the changing fortunes of the commentary in the age of altertumswissenschaft / Katherine Harloe (Reading) -- Jean-François Vauvilliers and pindaric commentary / Penelope Wilson (Cambridge). Part 5 : Futures : commentaries and the web. Heracles' choice : thoughts on the virtues of print and digital commentary / Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State) -- The dream of a universal variorum : digitizing the commentary tradition / Peter Heslin (Durham) -- The future of antiquity : an afterword / Sander M. Goldberg (UCLA).
• Sommario/riassunto: This rich collection of essays by an international group of authors explores a wide range of commentaries on ancient Latin and Greek texts. It pays particular attention to individual commentaries, national traditions of commentary, the part played by commentaries in the reception of classical texts, and the role of printing and publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Classical commentaries
• ISBN: 0-19-176808-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157834203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II