Ope ingenii - Experiences of Textual Criticism

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.

About the author

Gian Biagio Conte, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Gian B. Conte, Gian Biagio Conte
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9783110312720
• ISBN: 978-3-11-031272-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 15 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies