Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-802) and indexes.
Contents:
Preface; 1. Main Sources and Method Followed in This Study; 2. Other Primary Sources and Secondary Literature Used in This Study; 3. Content, Goals, and Limitations of This Study; Part 1. Aristarchus: Contexts and Sources; 1.1. Aristarchus: Life, Sources, and Selection of Fragments; 1. Aristarchus at Alexandria; 2. The Aristarchean Tradition and the Venetus A; 3. The Scholia Maiora to the Iliad and Erbse's Edition; 4. Aristarchus in the Scholia; 4.1. Aristonicus at Work; 4.2. Didymus at Work; 4.3. Aristonicus versus Didymus; 5. Selecting Aristarchus' Fragments for This Study 2. Ekdosis, Hypomnema, and Critical Signs; 3. Homeric Hypomnemata on Papyrus and Critical Signs; 4. Homeric Ekdoseis on Papyrus and Critical Signs; 5. Conclusions; 2.2. Aristarchus and Manuscript Evidence; 1. Evidence from Didymus; 2. Evidence from Aristonicus; 3. Conclusions; 2.3. Paraphrase: A Ubiquitous Interpretative Tool; 1. Aristarchus' Direct Quotations: Lecturing with Paraphrases; 2. Close and Loose Paraphrases; 3. Close Paraphrases: Homer 'Translated' into Koine; 4. Loose Paraphrases: Discussing Homeric Content; 5. Other Uses of Paraphrases; 6. Conclusions Part 3. The Six Parts of Grammar3.0. The Six Parts of Grammar; 3.1. Reading Aloud: The Interpretative Effort of Reading; 1. The Philologist and the Manuscript; 2. Reading according to the Right Vowel Quantities; 3. A Question of Division: Interpreting the Scriptio Continua; 4. A Method for Clarifying Things: Adding Accents; 4.1. Accents and Analogy; 4.2. Accents and Homographs; 4.3. Accents, Scriptio Continua, and Syntax; 5. Between Reading and Semantics: Choosing the Breathing; 6. Reading Aloud: Syntax and Punctuation; 7. Posidonius, the 'Reader' of Aristarchus; 8. Conclusions.
Summary:
"A founding father of the 'art of philology,' Aristarchus of Samothrace (216-144 BCE) made a profound contribution to ancient scholarship. In his study of Homer's Iliad, his methods and principles inevitably informed, even reshaped, his edition of the epic. This systematic study places Aristarchus and his fragments preserved in the Iliadic scholia, or marginal annotations, in the context and cultural environment of his own time. Francesca Schironi presents a more robust picture of Aristarchus as a scholar than anyone has offered previously. Based on her analysis of over 4,300 fragments from his commentary on the Iliad, she reconstructs Aristarchus' methodology and its relationship to earlier scholarship, especially Aristotelian poetics. Schironi departs from the standard commentary on individual fragments, and instead organizes them by topic to produce a rigorous scholarly examination of how Aristarchus worked. Combining the accuracy and detail of traditional philology with a big-picture study of recurrent patterns and methodological trends across Aristarchus' work, this volume offers a new approach to scholarship in Alexandrian and classical philology. It will be the go-to reference book on this topic for many years to come, and will usher in a new way of addressing the highly technical work of ancient scholars without losing philological accuracy. This book will be valuable to classicists and philologists interested in Homer and Homeric criticism in antiquity, Hellenistic scholarship, and ancient literary criticism"--Publisher's website.
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