Scribes and Scholars - A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to preserve them for future generations. In this 4th edition adjustments have been made to the text and the notes have been revised in order to take account of advances in scholarship over the last twenty years.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Antiquity


• 2: The Greek East


• 3: The Latin West


• 4: The Renaissance


• 5: Some Aspects of Scholarship Since the Renaissance


• 6: Textual Criticism


• Abbreviations


• Notes


• Index of MSS.


• General Index


• Notes to the Plates


• Plates

About the author

The Late L. D. Reynolds (d. 1999) was a Fellow and Tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has editrd Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics and is responsible for the Oxford Classical Texts of Seneca (Letters and Dialogues), Sallust, and Cicero (De finibus).

N. G. Wilson is Emeritus Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford. With D. A. Russell, he provided an editon of Menander Rhetor with accompanying translation and commentary. He has contributed to the Oxford Classical Text series Sophocles (in collaboration with Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones), Aristophanea (2007), and the forthcoming Herodotus.

Summary

It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to preserve them for future generations. In this 4th edition adjustments have been made to the text and the notes have been revised in order to take account of advances in scholarship over the last twenty years.

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'The third edition of this superb work has been carefully revised to reflect advances in classical scholarship since publication of the previous edition. The work is indispensable for classical students who have not read the previous edition, and recommended for those who want recent information on an essential subject.'
Gerald O'Sullivan, Stockton State College, Classical World

Product details

• Authors: L. D. Reynolds, L. D. (Fellow and Tutor Reynolds, L.d. Wilson Reynolds, Leighton D. Reynolds, Leighton D. Wilson Reynolds, Reynolds L. D., N. G. Wilson, Wilson N. G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199686322
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968632-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography