Ancient Scholarship and Classical Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I. “Philologia perennis”: History and New Perspectives
5. Ancient Scholarship and Classical Studies 11
6. II. The Ancient Scholars at Work
7. Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship 27
8. Scholarly Panic: παυικός φόβος, Homeric Philology and the Beginning of the Rhesus 41
9. Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Readings of his ‘Grammar’ Definition 55
10. Ex Homero grammatica 87
11. Aristarchus and Allegorical Interpretation 105
12. Portrait of an Unknown Scholiast 119
13. Homeric Commentaries on Papyrus: A Survey 159
14. Didymus on Pindar 181
15. Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: The Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides 199
16. Re-writing the Personal Joke: Some Aspects in the Interpretation of όυομαστί κωμῳδεῖυ in Ancient Scholarship 207
17. Ancient Scholia and Lost Identities: The Case of Simichidas 225
18. III. The Ancient Grammarians on the Greek Language and Linguistic Correctness
19. Did the Alexandrian Grammarians have a Sense of History? 241
20. Apollonius between Homeric and Hellenistic Greek: The Case of the ‘Pre-positive Article’ 251
21. Attic Irregularities: Their Reinterpretation in the Light of Atticism 269
22. A Champion of Analogy: Herodian’s On Lexical Singularity 291
23. IV. Ancient Grammar in Historical Context
24. New Papyri and the History of Ancient Grammar: The έπίρρημα Chapter in P. Berol. 9917 313
25. Quintilian’s ‘Grammar’ (Inst.1.4-8) and its Importance for the History of Roman Grammar 331
26. Syntax before Syntax: Uses of the Term σύνταξις in Greek Grammarians before Apollonius Dyscolus 347
27. Syntagms in the Artigraphic Latin Grammars 361
28. Latin Grammatical Manuals in the Early Middle Ages: Tradition and Adaptation in the Participle Chapter 375
29. Theodosius and his Byzantine Successors on the Participle: A Didactic Approach 405
30. The Orus Fragments in the Ethnica of Stephanus of Byzantium 429
31. V. Ancient Grammar in Interdisciplinary Context
32. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Scholia on Thucydides’ Syntax 451
33. Imposition of Names in Ancient Grammar and Philosophy 479
34. Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle: The ‘Arbitrariness of the Linguistic Sign’ 499
35. List of Contributors 515
36. Abbreviations 523
37. Bibliography 527
38. General Index 563
39. Passages Index 573