The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004121536 ISBN 13: 9789004121539

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2002

Synopsis

This volume explores the theory, historical practice, and future of the traditional commentary on classical texts. Special topics include the relationship between texts, commentators and readers; citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and revision; and the impact of the Internet.

About this title

About the Author

Christina Shuttleworth Kraus is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Oriel College, Oxford. She has written a commentary on Livy Ab Vrbe Condita VI (Cambridge 1994) and published on Greek tragic narrative and Roman historiography, including The limits of historiography (Brill, 1999). She is preparing a commentary on Caesar, De bello gallico VII.
Roy K. Gibson is Lecturer in Classics in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Manchester. He has published articles on Augustan poetry, and is the author of a commentary on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3 (CUP, 2002). He plans to work next on a commentary on the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Review

'This splendid book offers a varied and thoughtful meditation on the role of the commentary in contemporary classical scholarship.'
B.J. Gibson, BCMR, 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004121536
• ISBN 13: 9789004121539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Gibson Roy K., Kraus Christina Shuttleworth