This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the...
This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of V...
The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole. He combines the scholarly precision of close reading with a significant, original theoretical model. At the heart of his interpretation, Conte reveals the technique of the "hidden author" that...
The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Fea...
Eine neue kritische Edition der Aeneis erfordert ein systematisches und zuverlassiges Durchdenken des Textes, jedoch auch eine ausreichende und moglichst vollstandige Darbietung der handschriftlichen Uberlieferung. Hierfur wurden nicht nur die sieben spatantiken codices erneut durchgesehen, sondern die recensio wurde erweitert durch den Ruckgriff auf Zeugnisse aus der karolingischen Zeit, die die fruheren Editoren nur teilweise mit herangezogen haben. Zu diesem Zweck wurden acht bisher vollig unerforschte Testimonien kollationiert. Auf diese Weise steht dem...
Eine neue kritische Edition der Aeneis erfordert ein systematisches und zuverlassiges Durchdenken des Textes, jedoch auch eine ausreichen...
This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. All Greek and Latin passages included are literally translated and commented step by step. Advanced students and scholars are offered an orderly sequence of 'cruces' healed by great...
This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a met...
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneidand shows how lively textual criticism can be.
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In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Eng...
In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxically represents a true act of artistic originality. In the second chapter, the author reconstructs the presuppositions of a method and explores at the same time its limitations.
In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxi...
