Culture in Pieces - Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons

Informationen zum Autor Dirk Obbink has held positions at Columbia and Ann Arbor. He was appointed University Lecturer in Papyrology in 1995 and has taught in Oxford since.Richard Rutherford has been Tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982. Klappentext This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The essays consider a variety of problems, addressing questions of literary history, source-criticism, editorial method, and scholarly technique. Zusammenfassung This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The essays consider a variety of problems, addressing questions of literary history, source-criticism, editorial method, and scholarly technique. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction 1: Dirk Obbink: Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco 2: M. L. West: Pindar as a Man of Letters 3: S. R. West: The Papyri of Herodotus 4: Richard Rutherford: The Use and Abuse of Irony 5: Adrian Hollis: Greek Letters in Hellenistic Bactria 6: Menander and his Rivals: New Light from the Comic Adespota on Papyria 7: Eric Handley: The Rediscovery of Menander 8: Colin Austin: My Daughter and her Dowry : Smikrines in Menander s Epitrepontes 9: Annette Harder: More Facts from Fragments 10: Susan Stephens: Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus 11: Giulio Massimilla: Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.) 12: Richard Hunter: The Reputation of Callimachus 13: Gregory Hutchinson: Telling Tales: Ovid s Metamorphoses and Callimachus 14: Michael Winterbottom: On Ancient Prose Rhythm: The Story of the Dichoreus 15: Christoph Riedweg: Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek Fragments and Arabic Versions 16: Albert Henrichs: Missing Pages: Papyrology, Genre, and the Greek Novel Bibliography of Peter Parsons Indexes ...

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• Autori: Dirk (EDT)/ Rutherford Obbink
• Con la collaborazione di: Dirk Obbink (Editore), Dirk (Lecturer in Papyrology and Tutor in Greek Obbink (Editore), Obbink Dirk (Editore), Richard Rutherford (Editore), Richard (Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature Rutherford (Editore), Rutherford Richard (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780199292011
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929201-1
• Pagine: 342
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval