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The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission
Building on Calvino’s observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone. The eighteen essays in this interdisciplinary volume show how ancient and medieval authors have been dealing with the problem of exactitude vs. inexactitude and have been able to exploit the ambiguities related to these two concepts to various ends. The articles focus on rhetoric and historiography (section I), exact sciences and technical disciplines (II), the peculiarity of quotations (III), cases of programmatic inexactitu...
Labor Imperfectus
Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the no...
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity
Documents such as papyri and inscriptions are essential to our knowledge of ancient history in a broad sense. This volume turns the attention to the texts themselves, and explores in an interdisciplinary way how people communicated with each other in antiquity.
Plato’s Cratylus
The first collective monograph on one of Plato’s most intriguing dialogues with interest for readers of ancient philosophy as well as those who study modern theories of language.
Die frühe Sophoklesrezeption in der griechischen Literatur
Die Arbeit macht zum ersten Mal die ganze Breite der frühen Sophoklesrezeption fassbar: Ein großes Spektrum an Gattungen und Autoren bezieht sich bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten, aber auch im weiteren Verlauf der Antike auf diesen athenischen Tragödiendichter. Andere Texte setzen sich mit Sophokles' Person und mit seinem Werk auf vielfältige Weise auseinander, und in Sophokles' früher Rezeptionsphase werden auch eine große Anzahl seiner Dramen über die sieben später kanonischen Tragödien hinaus aufgegriffen und geschätzt. Das umfangreiche Corpus der erhaltenen Sophoklesrezeptionen analysiert die Arbeit eingehend und deutet sie anhand einschlägiger Beispiele vor allem aus dem 5. und 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. aus. Darüber hinaus zeigt Hannah Brandenburg, dass viele bis heute weit verbreitete Ansichten über Sophokles und seine Stücke schon von seinen Zeitgenossen geprägt wurden und sich in den folgenden Jahrhunderten verfestigten, darunter auch die Vorstellung, Sophokles sei der beste Tragödiendichter.
Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies
The present volume is the main achievement of the Research Networking Programme 'Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies', funded by the European Science Foundation in the years 2009-2014. It is the first attempt to introduce a wide audience to the entirety of the manuscript cultures of the Mediterranean East. The chapters reflect the state of the art in such fields as codicology, palaeography, textual criticism and text editing, cataloguing, and manuscript conservation as applied to a wide array of language traditions including Arabic, Armenian, Avestan, Caucasian Albanian, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Slavonic, Syriac, and Turkish. Seventy-seven scholars from twenty-one countries joined their efforts to produce the handbook. The resulting reference work can be recommended both to scholars and students of classical and oriental studies and to all those involved in manuscript research, digital humanities, and preservation of cultural heritage. The volume includes maps, illustrations, indexes, and an extensive bibliography.
