Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny - Proceedings of First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich Murnau

The papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of "classical" texts and their audiences.

About the author

Jeffrey Henderson is William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Emeritus, at Boston University.Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, winner of the Marraro Prize and a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year; Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena; and Plato in the Italian Renaissance; and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.Sheldon Pollock is the Founding General Editor of the Murty Classical Library of India and Arvind Raghunathan Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies at Columbia University.Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University.

Summary

The papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of “classical” texts and their audiences.

Product details

• Authors: James Hankins, Jeffrey Henderson, Jeffrey Thomas Henderson, Sheldon Pollock, Richard F. Thomas, Jan M. Ziolkowski
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Henderson (Editor), Henderson Jeffrey (Editor), Richard F. Thomas (Editor), Thomas Richard F. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780674248717
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24871-7
• No. of pages: 454
• Assisted by: Jan M. Ziolkowski
• Series: Loeb Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Italian, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary reference works, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval