Critics, Compilers, and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE - Hardcover

Zetzel, James E.G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195380517 ISBN 13: 9780195380514

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

James E.G. Zetzel is Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. He 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195380517
• ISBN 13: 9780195380514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 446