| Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus a Manuscript of the Iliad Contributor(s): Dué, Casey (Editor), Zorzi, Marino (Contribution by), Marcon, Susy (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0674032020 ISBN-13: 9780674032026 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $69.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2009 Annotation: Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the "Iliad" in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 883.01 |
| LCCN: 2009015259 |
| Series: Hellenic Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8.5" W x 9.5" (1.70 lbs) 196 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 = 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team of scholars and conservators in May 2007. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bird, Graeme D.: - Graeme D. Bird is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Gordon College.Ebbott, Mary: - Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross.Nagy, Gregory: - Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.Due, Casey: - Casey Dué is Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. |