Culture in pieces: essays on ancient texts in honour of Peter Parsons

This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The essays consider a variety of problems, addressing questions of literary history, source-criticism, editorial method, and scholarly technique. INDICE: List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Conventions; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Richard Rutherford and Dirk Obbink: ; 1: Dirk Obbink:Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco; 2: M.L. West: Pindar as a Man of Letters; 3: S. R. West: The Papyri of Herodotus; 4: Richard Rutherford: The Use and Abuse of Irony; 5: Adrian Hollis: Greek Letters in Hellenistic Bactria; 6: Menander and his Rivals: New Light from the Comic Adespota on Papyria; 7: Eric Handley: The Rediscovery of Menander; 8: Colin Austin: My Daughter and her Dowry : Smikrines in Menander s Epitrepontes; 9:Annette Harder: More Facts from Fragments; 10: Susan Stephens: Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus; 11: Giulio Massimilla: Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.); 12: Richard Hunter: The Reputation of Callimachus; 13: Gregory Hutchinson: Telling Tales: Ovid s Metamorphoses and Callimachus; 14: Michael Winterbottom: On Ancient Prose Rhythm: The Story of the Dichoreus; 15: Christoph Riedweg: Alexander of Aphrodisias,De prouidentia: Greek Fragments and Arabic Versions; 16: Albert Henrichs: Missing Pages: Papyrology, Genre, and the Greek Novel; Bibliography of Peter Parsons; Indexes

• ISBN: 978-0-19-929201-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés