The Limits Of Exactitude In Greek Roman And Byzantine Literature And Textual Transmission

Author : Nicoletta Bruno,Giulia Dovico,Olivia Montepaone,Marco Pelucchi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110796612

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The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission by Nicoletta Bruno,Giulia Dovico,Olivia Montepaone,Marco Pelucchi Pdf

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 inexactitude (IV) and textual transmission (V). Several interconnected questions weave a net across the volume: to what extent is exactitude the goal in ancient and medieval texts? How can the concepts of accuracy and inaccuracy aid the reinterpretation of an already known text or fact? To what extent can certain definitions of exactitude be stretched, without turning into inexactitude? The volume presents an extensive study capable of highlighting the shrewdness and aptness of the concepts introduced by Calvino more than thirty years ago.

Author : Nicoletta Bruno,Giulia Dovico,Olivia Montepaone,Marco Pelucchi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110796667

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The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission by Nicoletta Bruno,Giulia Dovico,Olivia Montepaone,Marco Pelucchi Pdf

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 inexactitude (IV) and textual transmission (V). Several interconnected questions weave a net across the volume: to what extent is exactitude the goal in ancient and medieval texts? How can the concepts of accuracy and inaccuracy aid the reinterpretation of an already known text or fact? To what extent can certain definitions of exactitude be stretched, without turning into inexactitude? The volume presents an extensive study capable of highlighting the shrewdness and aptness of the concepts introduced by Calvino more than thirty years ago.

Author : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Marco Formisano,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111341019

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Labor Imperfectus by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Marco Formisano,Stavros Frangoulidis Pdf

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 novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work. This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.

Author : A. Bouhafs,L. Chapon,M. Claude,M. Danilova,L. Dautais,N. Fathy,A.I. Fernández Pichel,M. Guigner,M. Pinon,M. Valerio
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803275840

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Current Research in Egyptology 2022 by A. Bouhafs,L. Chapon,M. Claude,M. Danilova,L. Dautais,N. Fathy,A.I. Fernández Pichel,M. Guigner,M. Pinon,M. Valerio Pdf

The present volume collects thirty-two papers on various topics from the history of Egyptology to archaeology and material culture, from the Predynastic to the Roman period, through history and epigraphy, as well as new technologies.

Author : Martina Russo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192672933

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Flattery in Seneca the Younger by Martina Russo Pdf

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan philosophy. The personal practice of flattery displayed in the Ad Polybium and in De clementia along with the 'distant' exempla of flattery represented by Seneca, and with the theorization of adulation, indicates the range and the complexity of strategic flattery during the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Furthermore, it is argued that Seneca emerges not only as a practitioner of flattery but also as a theorist of it. While many writers tarnished their reputation by giving in to flattery, Seneca was among the few who not only accepted flattery but also advocated it as an essential tool in his own times. Nevertheless, in Seneca's philosophical prose, a constant tension emerges: whereas flattery is 'politically' acceptable as an instrument to cope with the absolute power embraced by the princeps, the sapiens (wise) and the proficiens (would-be wise) should be careful because flattery can seriously compromise their path to wisdom. By analysing the theory and practice of flattery, Russo discusses how passages permeated with the most blatant flattery can be read on a new level, by viewing Seneca's philosophical prose as an extended exercise in symbolic projection and figured speech. It becomes possible to disclose traces of political criticism behind the fa?ade of the most flagrant flattery.

Author : Juan Signes Codoñer,Inmaculada Pérez Martín
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0106766298

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Textual Transmission in Byzantium by Juan Signes Codoñer,Inmaculada Pérez Martín Pdf

A workshop was held in February 2012 in Madrid to stimulate a debate on textual criticism centred on the analysis of Byzantine texts and their modes of publication, rewriting and diffusion. The main aim was to provide future editors or scholars of the history of texts with a rich typology of concepts to guide their task, such as interpolation, paraphrasis, metaphrasis, quotation, collection, amplification or falsification, among others, but always taking into account that the principles upon which the discipline of textual criticism was founded needed to be reconsidered when dealing with the transmission of Byzantine texts. The present book brings together the different case studies produced by the participants of the workshop into a coherent whole and distributes them into five different sections according to their methodological approaches: 1. Language and style; 2. Virtual libraries and crossed readings; 3. Philosophical treatises and collections; 3.The sources of history; 5. Law texts and their reception. The results of the different approaches put forward by the contributors offer a broad palette of methodological strategies that are, to a great extent, complementary, and will, so we hope, illuminate the task of the future editors with new reflections.

Author : Consuelo Ruiz-Montero
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527546592

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Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire by Consuelo Ruiz-Montero Pdf

Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Author : Konstantin Doulamis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922859

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Echoing Narratives by Konstantin Doulamis Pdf

Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to make a contribution towards filling this gap by drawing attention to, and throwing fresh light on, the presence in ancient Greek and Roman narratives of earlier literary echoes. While one volume is by no means sufficient to remedy the problem of the relative lack of scholarship on the topic, nevertheless it is hoped that the present collection will create scope for debate and will generate greater scholarly interest in this area. Most of the articles collected here originated in the colloquium 'The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Earlier Literature', which was held at University College Cork in August 2007. They investigate the interconnection between Graeco-Roman narratives and earlier or contemporary works, and consider ways in which intertextual exploration is invited from the readers of these texts. What prompts the reader to associate a passage with an earlier text? What triggers in a text the evocation of motifs from antecedent literature? How might we interpret an identified allusion? In what ways can intertextuality function as a device of characterisation? These are among the questions explored by the chapters in this volume, which concentrate on the 'canonical' Greek romances and the Roman novels but also cover other novel-like works, such as the Alexander Romance and Alexander's Letter to Aristotle About India, and the Story of Apollonius King of Tyre.

Author : Roberta Berardi,Nicoletta Bruno,Luisa Fizzarotti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110630169

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On the Track of the Books by Roberta Berardi,Nicoletta Bruno,Luisa Fizzarotti Pdf

This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism.

Author : Panagiotis Manafis
Publisher : Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 0367496453

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(Re)writing History in Byzantium by Panagiotis Manafis Pdf

Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planudea (thirteenth century). Three aspects of these texts are analysed in detail: their method of redaction, their literary structure, and their cultural and political function. Combining codicological, literary, and political analyses, this study contributes to a better understanding of the intertwining of knowledge and power, and suggests that these collections of historical excerpts should be seen as a Byzantine way of rewriting history. The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429351020, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Anna Maria Taragna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 886274417X

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Ten centuries of Byzantine prose by Anna Maria Taragna Pdf

Author : Martin Hinterberger
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 2503552374

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The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature by Martin Hinterberger Pdf

Built on a highly traditional educational system, the language of Byzantine literature was for the most part written in an idiom deeply influenced by ancient Greek texts and grammatical handbooks. The resulting overall archaizing impression of Byzantine Greek is largely why the language of learned literature - as compared with the relatively well researched vernacular literature - has seldom been taken seriously as an object of linguistic study. This volume combines the expertise of linguists and scholars of Byzantine literature to challenge the assumption that learned medieval Greek is merely the weary continuation of ancient Greek or, worse still, a poor imitation of it, while proposing that it needs to be treated as a literary idiom in its own right. The contribution that texts of this kind can offer to sub-fields of Greek historical linguistics is explored using specific examples. Sociolinguistic theory provides a particularly useful framework for a more accurate analysis of the relationship between the vernacular and classicizing varieties of Greek literary language. In addition, the impact of the educational system on the production of texts is examined. In another chapter it is shown that a number of far-reaching assumptions, which originated in the 15th century, about accentuation and the middle voice still tend to colour our understanding of Byzantine, as well as ancient, Greek. Other chapters focusing on particles, the dative and the synthetic perfect reveal that Byzantine authors, while of course influenced by the living spoken language, used their classical linguistic heritage in a creative and innovative way.

Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351480437

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The Jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart Pdf

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911, Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism. As Samuel Z. Klausner emphasizes, the lasting value of Sombart's work rests not in his results-most of which have long since been disproved-but in his point of departure. Openly acknowledging his debt to Max Weber, Sombart set out to prove the double thesis of the Jewish foundation of capitalism and the capitalist foundation of Judaism. Klausner, placing Sombart's work in its historical and societal context, examines the weaknesses and strengths of Jews and Modern Capitalism.

Author : Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004277649

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Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila Pdf

In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme.

Author : Emlyn K. Dodd
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 1789694027

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Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean by Emlyn K. Dodd Pdf

Wine was an ever-present commodity that permeated the Mediterranean throughout antiquity. This book analyses the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now well-known agricultural boom of the 5th-7th centuries AD.