0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval

Buy Now

Recapturing a Homeric Legacy - Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,505
Discovery Miles 15 050
You Save: R164 (10%)
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy - Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (Hardcover): Casey Due

Recapturing a Homeric Legacy - Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (Hardcover)

Casey Due; Contributions by Marino Zorzi, Susy Marcon, Graeme D. Bird, Christopher W Blackwell, Mary Ebbott, Myriam Hecquet-Devienne, David Jacobs, Ioli Kalevresou, Gregory Nagy

Series: Hellenic Studies Series

 (sign in to rate)
List price R1,669 Loot Price R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 | Repayment Terms: R141 pm x 12* You Save R164 (10%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies
Country of origin: United States
Series: Hellenic Studies Series
Release date: August 2009
First published: August 2009
Editors: Casey Due
Contributors: Marino Zorzi • Susy Marcon • Graeme D. Bird • Christopher W Blackwell • Mary Ebbott • Myriam Hecquet-Devienne • David Jacobs • Ioli Kalevresou • Gregory Nagy
Dimensions: 178 x 241 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03202-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Promotions
LSN: 0-674-03202-0
Barcode: 9780674032026

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners