Ginelli / Lupi The Continuity of Classical Literature Through Fragmentary Traditions

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-11-071222-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 105, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary VolumesISSN

Fragmentary texts play a central role in Classics. Their study poses a stimulating challenge to scholars and readers, while its methods and principles, far from being rigidly immutable, invite constant reflection on its methods, approaches, and goals. By focusing on some of the most relevant issues that fragmentologists have to face, this book contributes to the ongoing and lively debate on the study of fragmentary texts.
This volume contains an extensive theoretical introduction on the study of textual fragments, followed by eight essays on a wide variety of topics relevant to the study of fragmentary texts across literary genres. The chapters range from archaic Greek epics (the Hesiodic corpus) to late-antique grammarian Nonius Marcellus as a source of fragments of Republican literature. All contributions share a nuanced, critical attention to the main methodological implications of the study of fragmentary texts and mutually contribute to highlighting the field’s common specificities and limitations, both in theory and in editorial practice.
The book offers a representative spectrum of fragmentological issues, providing all readers with an interest in Classics with an up-to-date, methodologically aware approach to the field.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and readers interested in Classical literature, philolog

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ginelli, Francesco

Lupi, Francesco

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Ginelli, University of Milan, Milan, Italy and Francesco Lupi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.