History of ancient Greek scholarship: from the beginnings to the end of the Byzantine age
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Origins and Growth of Scholarship in Pre-Hellenistic Greece -- 1 Social Premises and Conditions Leading to the Establishment of Scholarship -- 1.1 Reading and Writing in Archaic Greece -- 1.2 Writing, Literacy and the Development of New Media -- 1.3...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: History of ancient Greek scholarship: from the beginnings to the end of the Byzantine age] (2021) (Papanikolau, Dēmētrēs)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Greece (Antiquity)
/ Science
/ Learning
B Byzantine Empire / Science |
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Collection of essays
B Greek philology-History |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Origins and Growth of Scholarship in Pre-Hellenistic Greece -- 1 Social Premises and Conditions Leading to the Establishment of Scholarship -- 1.1 Reading and Writing in Archaic Greece -- 1.2 Writing, Literacy and the Development of New Media -- 1.3 Literacy as an Instrument in Learning -- 1.4 The Growth of Scholarly Environment -- 2 Social Institutions that Assisted in the Development of Scholarship -- 2.1 Education -- 2.2 Libraries and Archives -- 3 Philological Approaches in Pre-Alexandrian Greece -- 3.1 The Early Critical and Interpretative Approaches -- 3.2 The Beginnings of Homeric Textual Criticism and Editing -- 3.3 Early Text Exegesis and Literary Criticism -- 3.4 Fundamental Notions of Language Categories -- 3.5 Towards a Scholarly Methodology: the Development of Scholarly Self-Awareness -- 3.6 400 BC to Alexandria: an Overview -- Chapter 2 Hellenistic Scholarship -- 1 Preliminaries -- 1.1 Court Poetry and Scholarship in Hellenistic Societies -- 1.2 Historiographic Pattern -- 1.3 Scholarship and Knowledge -- 2 Alexandrian Scholarship to 144 BC -- 2.1 Traces of Scholarship Outside Alexandria in the Early Hellenistic Age -- 2.2 Culture and Royal Patronage in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: the Museum -- 2.3 Making the 'Universal' Library -- 2.4 Philology for Books, Books for Philology -- 2.5 Librarians' diadokhē and Learned Community -- 3 The Spread of Scholarship in the 2nd and 1st Centuries -- 3.1 Rise and Zenith of Pergamene Scholarship (2nd Century) -- 3.2 Pluralism and Exchange in Late Hellenistic Scholarship (144-31) -- 3.3 Alexandrian Scholars in an Augustan World -- Chapter 3 Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity -- 1 State of Research, Presuppositions and Focal Points of a Historical Survey -- 2 Philology and Grammar in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity in Context. 2.1 Criteria for the Periodization of the History of Philology and Grammar -- 2.2 The Institutional Character of Philology and Grammar -- 3 Persons, Works and Achievements -- 3.1 Judgments and Prejudices -- 3.2 Philological Studies -- 3.3 Linguistic Studies -- 3.4 Studies on Metrics -- 3.5 Lexicography -- Chapter 4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529-1453) -- 1 From Justinian to Iconoclasm -- 1.1 Beginnings -- 1.2 Schools and Cultural Centers in the Mediterranean -- 1.3 Constantinople: Schools and Scholars -- 1.4 Iconoclasm -- 1.5 Transliteration -- 2 From the Byzantine Revival to the Age of Encyclopedism -- 2.1 General -- 2.2 Photius -- 2.3 Lexicography and Grammar -- 2.4 Manuscripts (9th Century) -- 2.5 Arethas -- 2.6 More Manuscripts (10th Century) -- 2.7 Schools -- 2.8 Collections -- 3 From Basil II to the Fourth Crusade -- 3.1 From Basil II to the 11th Century: the Context -- 3.2 Mauropous, Psellus, Italus -- 3.3 The Comnenian Age: General Features -- 3.4 The Comnenian Age: Schedography and Grammar -- 3.5 The Comnenian Age: Commenting Texts -- 3.6 John Tzetzes -- 3.7 Eustathius -- 3.8 The Comnenian Age: Manuscripts -- 3.9 Italy -- 4 From Nicaea to the Palaeologan Renaissance -- 4.1 Nicaea -- 4.2 Southern Italy between the 13th and the 14th Century -- 4.3 The Palaeologan Renaissance: Context and Early Personalities -- 4.4 Maximus Planudes -- 4.5 Constantinople after Planudes: Moschopulus, Grammar, Lexicography -- 4.6 Constantinople after Planudes: between Christian and Classical Culture -- 4.7 Thessalonica: Thomas Magistros and Demetrius Triclinius -- 4.8 Theodore Metochites and Nicephorus Gregoras -- 5 The Last Century of Byzantium -- 5.1 The Late 14th Century: between Hesychasm and Classicism -- 5.2 From Chrysoloras to the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1397-1439) -- 5.3 The Last Years before the Fall -- Bibliography -- General Index. Passages Index. |
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| ISBN: | 9004430571 |