Interpreting a Classic
Demosthenes and His Ancient Commentators
Craig Gibson's Interpreting a Classic, starting from the papyrus fragments of Didymus on Demosthenes' Fourth Philippie, shows just how rewarding such recondite material can be. In Gibson's hands old-fashioned philological Wissenschaft becomes the high-level instrument for a beautifully argued step-by-step detective investigation (complete with translation and his own commentary) of one strand in the ancient academic pursuit of truth. As Gibson says, 'At stake was nothing less than the correct interpretation of a classic,' and this has clearly been his own guiding principle too. I cannot think of another book on so recherche a topic that so su…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-22956-3
- EAN: 9780520229563
- Produktnummer: 1148939
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 273 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 544 g
- Abbildungen: Cloth Over Boards
- Gewicht: 544
Über den Autor
Craig A. Gibson is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa.
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