Interpreting a classic : Demosthenes and his ancient commentators
"Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly lost tradition of ancient scholarship, Craig A. Gibson tells the story of how one group of ancient scholars helped their readers understand this man's writings. This book collects for the first time, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes.Using these texts to illuminate an important aspect of Graeco-Roman antiquity that has hitherto been difficult to glimpse, this book gives a detailed portrait of a scholarly industry that touched generations of ancient readers from the first century B.C. to the fifth century and beyond."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
9780520229563, 0520229568
47716510
pt. 1. The Ancient Commentaries on Demosthenes. 1. Form and Transmission. 2. Sources, Agenda, and Readership. 3. Didymus
pt. 2. Texts, Translations and Notes. 1. Commentary on Dem. 9-11 and 13 (P. Berol.inv. 9780). 2. Didymus Fragments in Harpocration. 3. Lexicon to Dem. 23 (P. Berol.inv. 5008). 4. Commentary on Dem. 5 (P. Berol.inv. 5008). 5. Commentary on Dem. 22 (P. Stras.inv. 84). 6. Lexicon to Dem. 21 (P. Rain.inv. 7)
App. Rhetorical Prologue and Commentary on Dem. 21 (P. Rain.inv. 7)
Includes the Greek texts with translations into English of the commentaries