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Zusatztext This edited volume is a delight, one of those books that all classicists will want to read not only for the important information it contains, but also for sheer pleasure. And so, to commence: congratulations are in order to the editors and the contributors for composing and arranging a marvelous addition ... Classical Commentaries is an addictive read, and anyone who loves books will find something to appreciate in these pages ... [it has] done much to reveal the tantalizing secrets of the very books that seek to unveil the myriad mysteries of classical poetry and prose. Informationen zum Autor Christina S. Kraus is Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin at Yale UniversityChristopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This rich collection of essays by an international group of scholars explores commentaries in many different languages on ancient Latin and Greek texts. The commentaries discussed range from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Together, the chapters contribute to the dialogue between two vibrant and developing fields of study: the history of scholarship and the history of the book. The volume 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. The material form of commentaries is also considered-including how they are advertised and their accompanying illustrations-as well as their role in education. Both academic texts and books written for schools are surveyed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Figures List of Contributors 1: Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray: Form and Content Part 1: Individuals: Commentaries and Modern Commentators 2: P. J. Finglass: Jebb's Sophocles 3: Christopher Stray: A Teutonic Monster in Oxford: The Making of Fraenkel's Agamemnon 4: Richard F. Thomas: My Back Pages 5: Stephen Harrison: Two-author Commentaries on Horace: Three Case Studies 6: S. P. Oakley: Dodd's Bacchae Part 2: Traditions: Commentaries on Specific Authors and Texts 7: Salvador Bartera: Commentary Writing on the Annals of Tacitus: Different Approaches for Different Audiences 8: Jackie Elliott: Commenting on Fragments: The Case of Early Roman Poetry 9: Armand D'Angour: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Text and Conjecture in Greek Lyric Commentary 10: Han Baltussen: Philosophers, Exegetes, Scholars: The Ancient Philosophical Commentary from Plato to Simplicius 11: Guido Milanese: Italian Commentaries on Lucretius 12: Justin Haynes: Citations of Ovid in Virgil's Ancient Commentators 13: John Davies: The Historical Commentary Part 3: Material: Form, Series, Markets 14: Paul F. Gehl: Selling Terence in Renaissance Italy: The Marketing Power of Commentary 15: Julia Gaisser: From Giovanni Pontano to Pierio Valeriano: Five renaissance Commentators on Latin Erotic Poetry 16: Stuart Gillespie: Translation and Commentary: Pope's Iliad 17: Christina S. Kraus: Agricolan Paratexts 18: Roy Gibson: Fifty Shades of Orange: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Part 4: Reception: History of Commentary 19: Caroline Bishop: Hipparchus Among the Detractors 20: Joseph Farrell: Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus' Idylls and Vergil's Eclogues 21: A. B. Kraebel: Biblical Exegesis and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Servius 22: Katherine Harloe: Christian Gottlob Heyne and the Changing For...
