Feeling and Classical Philology

Feeling and Classical Philology
Author: Constanze Güthenke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107104238

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Classical Philology and Theology

Classical Philology and Theology
Author: Catherine Conybeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108494838

Explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between classical philology and theology.

Marginality, Canonicity, Passion

Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
Author: Marco Formisano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0198818483

Reception studies has profoundly transformed Classics and its objects of study: while canonical texts demand much attention, works with a less robust Nachleben are marginalized. This volume explores the discipline from the perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, revealing their implications for its past and future development.

Digital Classical Philology

Digital Classical Philology
Author: Monica Berti
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110596997

Thanks to the digital revolution, even a traditional discipline like philology has been enjoying a renaissance within academia and beyond. Decades of work have been producing groundbreaking results, raising new research questions and creating innovative educational resources. This book describes the rapidly developing state of the art of digital philology with a focus on Ancient Greek and Latin, the classical languages of Western culture. Contributions cover a wide range of topics about the accessibility and analysis of Greek and Latin sources. The discussion is organized in five sections concerning open data of Greek and Latin texts; catalogs and citations of authors and works; data entry, collection and analysis for classical philology; critical editions and annotations of sources; and finally linguistic annotations and lexical databases. As a whole, the volume provides a comprehensive outline of an emergent research field for a new generation of scholars and students, explaining what is reachable and analyzable that was not before in terms of technology and accessibility.

Philology

Philology
Author: James Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 069116858X

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.

Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity

Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity
Author: Anthony K. Jensen
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472514084

Typically, the first decade of Friedrich Nietzsche's career is considered a sort of précis to his mature thinking. Yet his philological articles, lectures, and notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought - much of which has received insufficient scholarly attention - were never intended to serve as a preparatory ground to future thought. Nietzsche's early scholarship was intended to express his insights into the character of antiquity. Many of those insights are not only important for better understanding Nietzsche; they remain vital for understanding antiquity today. Interdisciplinary in scope and international in perspective, this volume investigates Nietzsche as a scholar of antiquity, offering the first thorough examination of his articles, lectures, notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought in English. With eleven original chapters by some of the leading Nietzsche scholars and classicists from around the world and with reproductions of two definitive essays, this book analyzes Nietzsche's scholarly methods and aims, his understanding of antiquity, and his influence on the history of classical studies.

Decimus Laberius

Decimus Laberius
Author: Costas Panayotakis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139485458

This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius' work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.

Classical Philology and Theology

Classical Philology and Theology
Author: Catherine Conybeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 110884913X

Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the present they have marched hand in hand, informing each other with method, views of the past and structures of argument. The volume rewrites the history of discipline formation, and reveals how close the seminar is to the seminary.