Critics, Compilers, and Commentators - An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 Bce-800 Ce

Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is the first comprehensive introduction to Roman philology-the study of Latin language and Latin texts. It explains its history and forms as they were transformed by changing intellectual and social contexts, and provides description and bibliography of hundreds of surviving dictionaries, commentaries, and grammars.

About the author

James Zetzel studied at Harvard University and the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London; he has taught at Brown and Princeton Universities and for the last 32 years at Columbia University. He has written extensively on the literature of the first century BCE and on the history of classical scholarship. He has also published two volumes of translations of Cicero.

Summary

Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is the first comprehensive introduction to Roman philology-the study of Latin language and Latin texts. It explains its history and forms as they were transformed by changing intellectual and social contexts, and provides description and bibliography of hundreds of surviving dictionaries, commentaries, and grammars.

Additional text

James Zetzel has written two outstanding books in one. The second half of Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is a modern portrait gallery of our ancestors, the ancient scholars who hover behind our Latin texts. The first half tells a fascinating story of how the work they did coalesced into a cultural project.

Product details

• Authors: James Zetzel, James E. G. Zetzel, James E. G. (Emeritus Professor Zetzel, Zetzel James E. G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780195380514
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538051-4
• No. of pages: 446
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Latein, Antike, Rom, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Linguistics, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Language: history & general works, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Language: history and general works, Ancient, classical and medieval texts