Overview

This book aims to offer a unified historical treatment of all that is usually understood as “ancient scholarship” or “ancient philology” and is the first modern work to cover a period from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium after John Edwin Sandys’ work published between 1903-1908. The field “ancient scholarship” includes the exegesis of Greek authors, the editing of their texts, orderly collections of materials useful for exegetical purposes – such as lexeis, onomatologies, collections of antiquarian materials et similia –, the study of grammar, reflection on language, and everything that can be linked to this sphere, that is to say literature and the instruments for interpreting it. If it is hard today to imagine such a work being undertaken by a single scholar, it is worth underlining the benefits offered by a volume with multiple expert voices in a field so complex and multiform. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been enlarged, updated and rethought.

Full Product Details

9789004427402

Table of Contents

Reviews

Der Band ist ausserst facetten- und informationsreich. (...) [Er] bietet eine gelungene Einfuhrung in das komplexe Gebiet auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung und wird sich hierfur als das Referenzwerk etablieren. - Eva Woeckener-Gade, in: The Byzantine Review 03.2021 ''Bien qu'on voie defiler tous les grands noms de la philologie et de la critique litteraire antique, on est loin d'une simple enumeration d'auteurs et d'oeuvres, une attention speciale etant accordee aux explications historiques des divers changements. En insistant sur la facon dont la culture de l'empire byzantin se nourrit de l'antiquite, ce livre a comme principal merite de montrer tout ce que la civilisation doit aux textes anciens. '' - Madalina Dala, in: Anabases. Traditions et receptions de l'Antiquite 04.2022 ''Der substanzielle Band bietet einen detaillierten UEberblick uber 2000 Jahre griechische Philologie-Geschichte. Die Einleitung von Franco Montanari setzt das Buch in Beziehung zur beruhmten History of Classical Scholarship (I: 1968, II: 1976) von Rudolf Pfeiffer und benennt das Hauptziel des Buches: die Ausfullung der von Pfeiffer gelassenen Lucke zwischen dem Hellenismus und dem Jahr 1300.'' - Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath, in: Historische Zeitschrift 06.2022

Author Information

Franco Montanari is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Genoa (Italy). He is the Director of the Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, of the book series Pleiadi (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura), of the Aristarchus project online, and co-editor of the journal and the book series Trends in Classics (De Gruyter). He is the author of the new Greek-Italian Dictionary GI - Vocabolario della Lingua Greca and of the English edition The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (Brill). He is co-editor of the Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity (Brill) and the Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum (Brill) and has published many academic works on ancient scholarship and grammar, archaic Greek epic poets and other Greek poets of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, including Brill’s Companion to Hesiod (2009) and Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015).

Tab Content 6

Countries Available