History of Ancient Greek Scholarship: From the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine Age

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This is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of “ancient scholarship” from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been updated and rethought. Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Origins and Growth of Scholarship in Pre-Hellenistic Greece 1 Social Premises and Conditions Leading to the Establishment of Scholarship 1.1 Reading and Writing in Archaic Greece 1.2 Writing, Literacy and the Development of New Media 1.3 Literacy as an Instrument in Learning 1.4 The Growth of Scholarly Environment 2 Social Institutions that Assisted in the Development of Scholarship 2.1 Education 2.2 Libraries and Archives 3 Philological Approaches in Pre-Alexandrian Greece 3.1 The Early Critical and Interpretative Approaches 3.2 The Beginnings of Homeric Textual Criticism and Editing 3.3 Early Text Exegesis and Literary Criticism 3.4 Fundamental Notions of Language Categories 3.5 Towards a Scholarly Methodology: the Development of Scholarly Self-Awareness 3.6 400 BC to Alexandria: an Overview Chapter 2 Hellenistic Scholarship 1 Preliminaries 1.1 Court Poetry and Scholarship in Hellenistic Societies 1.2 Historiographic Pattern 1.3 Scholarship and Knowledge 2 Alexandrian Scholarship to 144 BC 2.1 Traces of Scholarship Outside Alexandria in the Early Hellenistic Age 2.2 Culture and Royal Patronage in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: the Museum 2.3 Making the ‘Universal’ Library 2.4 Philology for Books, Books for Philology 2.5 Librarians’ diadokhē and Learned Community 3 The Spread of Scholarship in the 2nd and 1st Centuries 3.1 Rise and Zenith of Pergamene Scholarship (2nd Century) 3.2 Pluralism and Exchange in Late Hellenistic Scholarship (144–31) 3.3 Alexandrian Scholars in an Augustan World Chapter 3 Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity 1 State of Research, Presuppositions and Focal Points of a Historical Survey 2 Philology and Grammar in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity in Context 2.1 Criteria for the Periodization of the History of Philology and Grammar 2.2 The Institutional Character of Philology and Grammar 3 Persons, Works and Achievements 3.1 Judgments and Prejudices 3.2 Philological Studies 3.3 Linguistic Studies 3.4 Studies on Metrics 3.5 Lexicography Chapter 4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529–1453) 1 From Justinian to Iconoclasm 1.1 Beginnings 1.2 Schools and Cultural Centers in the Mediterranean 1.3 Constantinople: Schools and Scholars 1.4 Iconoclasm 1.5 Transliteration 2 From the Byzantine Revival to the Age of Encyclopedism 2.1 General 2.2 Photius 2.3 Lexicography and Grammar 2.4 Manuscripts (9th Century) 2.5 Arethas 2.6 More Manuscripts (10th Century) 2.7 Schools 2.8 Collections 3 From Basil II to the Fourth Crusade 3.1 From Basil II to the 11th Century: the Context 3.2 Mauropous, Psellus, Italus 3.3 The Comnenian Age: General Features 3.4 The Comnenian Age: Schedography and Grammar 3.5 The Comnenian Age: Commenting Texts 3.6 John Tzetzes 3.7 Eustathius 3.8 The Comnenian Age: Manuscripts 3.9 Italy 4 From Nicaea to the Palaeologan Renaissance 4.1 Nicaea 4.2 Southern Italy between the 13th and the 14th Century 4.3 The Palaeologan Renaissance: Context and Early Personalities 4.4 Maximus Planudes 4.5 Constantinople after Planudes: Moschopulus, Grammar, Lexicography 4.6 Constantinople after Planudes: between Christian and Classical Culture 4.7 Thessalonica: Thomas Magistros and Demetrius Triclinius 4.8 Theodore Metochites and Nicephorus Gregoras 5 The Last Century of Byzantium 5.1 The Late 14th Century: between Hesychasm and Classicism 5.2 From Chrysoloras to the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1397–1439) 5.3 The Last Years before the Fall Bibliography General Index Passages Index