The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad

ISBN-13: 9780472130764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 936 str.

Francesca Schironi

Opis

A founding father of the ""art of philology"", Aristarchus of Samothrace (216-144 BCE) developed a sound, almost scientific method of literary exegesis. This book offers a systematic study of the most famous grammarian in Alexandria, places Aristarchus and his Iliadic scholia within the context and cultural environment of his own time.