Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world

The present study offers the first comprehensive work on papyrus commentaries in the context of ancient scholarship. Each chapter treats a different aspect of these texts. In Chapter 1 I provide the reader with a general overview of the main features of ancient commentaries in terms of content and l...

সম্পূর্ণ বিবরণ

গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রধান লেখক: Coen, S
অন্যান্য লেখক: Hutchinson, G
বিন্যাস: গবেষণাপত্র
ভাষা:English
প্রকাশিত: 2024
বিষয়গুলি:
_version_ 1826311936676986880
author Coen, S
author2 Hutchinson, G
author_facet Hutchinson, G
Coen, S
author_sort Coen, S
collection OXFORD
description The present study offers the first comprehensive work on papyrus commentaries in the context of ancient scholarship. Each chapter treats a different aspect of these texts. In Chapter 1 I provide the reader with a general overview of the main features of ancient commentaries in terms of content and layout, analysing a selection of examples focusing on different literary genres and comparing them to their modern counterparts. In Chapter 2 I study the material characteristics of papyrus commentaries, i.e. handwriting, use of the <em>recto</em> / <em>verso</em>, presence / absence of abbreviations, corrections, lectional and critical signs, and physical reinforcements of the papyrus. Chapter 3 takes into account the other main ‘exegetical typologies’ (treatises, marginal annotations, paraphrases, hypotheses, <em>diegeseis</em>), and studies in particular their similarities and differences with respect to commentaries. Finally, Chapter 4 investigates the contexts of production, use, and safekeeping of papyrus commentaries, i.e. whether they could belong to students, teachers, or scholars, and could be kept in public or private libraries and collections. This study intends to offer a better understanding of how ancient people read and studied their ‘classics’ in the light of the fundamental testimony of papyrus fragments.
first_indexed 2024-03-07T08:18:40Z
format Thesis
id oxford-uuid:684c78fc-2ef3-4da9-92f3-7773a8c5a8c8
institution University of Oxford
language English
last_indexed 2024-03-07T08:18:40Z
publishDate 2024
record_format dspace
spelling oxford-uuid:684c78fc-2ef3-4da9-92f3-7773a8c5a8c82024-01-19T06:46:02ZCommenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman worldThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:684c78fc-2ef3-4da9-92f3-7773a8c5a8c8Classical philologyPaleographyPapyrologyEnglishHyrax Deposit2024Coen, SHutchinson, GColomo, DThe present study offers the first comprehensive work on papyrus commentaries in the context of ancient scholarship. Each chapter treats a different aspect of these texts. In Chapter 1 I provide the reader with a general overview of the main features of ancient commentaries in terms of content and layout, analysing a selection of examples focusing on different literary genres and comparing them to their modern counterparts. In Chapter 2 I study the material characteristics of papyrus commentaries, i.e. handwriting, use of the <em>recto</em> / <em>verso</em>, presence / absence of abbreviations, corrections, lectional and critical signs, and physical reinforcements of the papyrus. Chapter 3 takes into account the other main ‘exegetical typologies’ (treatises, marginal annotations, paraphrases, hypotheses, <em>diegeseis</em>), and studies in particular their similarities and differences with respect to commentaries. Finally, Chapter 4 investigates the contexts of production, use, and safekeeping of papyrus commentaries, i.e. whether they could belong to students, teachers, or scholars, and could be kept in public or private libraries and collections. This study intends to offer a better understanding of how ancient people read and studied their ‘classics’ in the light of the fundamental testimony of papyrus fragments.
spellingShingle Classical philology
Paleography
Papyrology
Coen, S
Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world
title Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world
title_full Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world
title_fullStr Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world
title_full_unstemmed Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world
title_short Commenting on ancient texts: interpreters and their audience in the Graeco-Roman world
title_sort commenting on ancient texts interpreters and their audience in the graeco roman world
topic Classical philology
Paleography
Papyrology
work_keys_str_mv AT coens commentingonancienttextsinterpretersandtheiraudienceinthegraecoromanworld