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Prolegomena to Homer, 1795

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship and his consideration of the composition of the Homeric poems--which set the terms for the analyst/unitarian controversy. His exploration of the history of the transmission of the text in antiquity opened a new field of research and transformed conceptions of the relations of ancient and modern culture.

Originally published in 1986.

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"This is the first English translation of Wolf's Prolegomena ad Homerum, a seminal work for classical scholarship. An introduction places Wolf in the cultural setting of eighteenth-century Germany, especially with regard to Homeric studies, showing how he was influenced by contemporary textual criticism of the Old Testament, and how Wolf's work was originally received." --- "Wolf's Prolegomena has long been recognized as one of the most important books in the history of classical studies. . . . This English translation, with a detailed historical introduction, makes it fully accessible to the modern reader. . . . The analytical and unitarian interpretations of Homer have, indeed, been argued over ever since. It is gratifying that the work which started this famous controversy is available once again."---H. B. Nisbet, Times Higher Education Supplement

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    CONTENTS

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    PREFACE

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    A NOTE ON CITATIONS

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    INTRODUCTION

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    CHAPTER I-VII

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    CHAPTER VIII-LI

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    CHAPTER I-II

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    SUBSIDIA

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    BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS

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    INDEX NOMINUM

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    INDEX LOCORUM

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Keywords for this book
Poetry; Homer; Writing; Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus); Homeric Question; Recension; Thebaid (Greek poem); Homeric Hymns; Euripides; Aeschylus; Epigram; Rhapsode; Aristophanes of Byzantium; Democritus; Herodotus; Trojan War; Scholia; Homeric scholarship; Athenaeus; Masoretic Text; Pythagoreanism; Herodian; Apollonius of Rhodes; Hesiod; Zenodotus; Heroides; Stephanus of Byzantium; Ars Poetica (Horace); Eustathius of Thessalonica; Essay; Thucydides; Dio Chrysostom; Suetonius; Epic poetry; Apollo; Cyclic Poets; Odysseus; Panaetius; Hortensius (Cicero); Dionysius Thrax; Palamedes (Arthurian legend); The Antiquary; Trivium; Cypria; Plutarch; Aristophanes; Sophocles; Isocrates; Timon of Phlius; Batrachomyomachia; Anacharsis; Biblical poetry; Onomacritus; Greek Homosexuality (book); Heraclides Ponticus; Lucretius; Diodorus Siculus; Hippias; Hebrews; Zaleucus; Tibullus; Conjecture (textual criticism); Etymology; Iliad; Acusilaus; The Philosopher; Archilochus; Little Iliad; Menaechmus; Vulgate
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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