Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception

Jeffrey M. Hunt|R. Alden Smith|Fabio Stok|Craig W. Kallendorf

ISBN 10: 1477313028 / ISBN 13: 9781477313022

Published by UNIV OF TEXAS PR, 2017

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This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.Kla.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception
• Publisher: UNIV OF TEXAS PR
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477313028
• ISBN 13: 9781477313022
• Binding: Kartoniert / Broschiert
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Winner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018

Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in perhaps the eighth century BC survive across nearly three millennia, so that today people can read them electronically on a smartphone?

Classics from Papyrus to the Internet provides a fresh, authoritative overview of the transmission and reception of classical texts from antiquity to the present. The authors begin with a discussion of ancient literacy, book production, papyrology, epigraphy, and scholarship, and then examine how classical texts were transmitted from the medieval period through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the modern era. They also address the question of reception, looking at how succeeding generations responded to classical texts, preserving some but not others. This sheds light on the origins of numerous scholarly disciplines that continue to shape our understanding of the past, as well as the determined effort required to keep the literary tradition alive. As a resource for students and scholars in fields such as classics, medieval studies, comparative literature, paleography, papyrology, and Egyptology, Classics from Papyrus to the Internet presents and discusses the major reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.

About the Author

Jeffrey M. Hunt is a senior lecturer in the Department of Classics at Baylor University.

R. Alden Smith is a professor of classics at Baylor University.

Fabio Stok is a professor of Latin literature and classical tradition at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.