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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet - An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Hardcover)
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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet - An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Hardcover)
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Winner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers
(AAP), 2018 Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the
wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the
Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the
West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes
toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on
papyrus in perhaps the eighth century BC survive across nearly
three millennia, so that today people can read them electronically
on a smartphone? Classics from Papyrus to the Internet provides a
fresh, authoritative overview of the transmission and reception of
classical texts from antiquity to the present. The authors begin
with a discussion of ancient literacy, book production, papyrology,
epigraphy, and scholarship, and then examine how classical texts
were transmitted from the medieval period through the Renaissance
and the Enlightenment to the modern era. They also address the
question of reception, looking at how succeeding generations
responded to classical texts, preserving some but not others. This
sheds light on the origins of numerous scholarly disciplines that
continue to shape our understanding of the past, as well as the
determined effort required to keep the literary tradition alive. As
a resource for students and scholars in fields such as classics,
medieval studies, comparative literature, paleography, papyrology,
and Egyptology, Classics from Papyrus to the Internet presents and
discusses the major reference works and online professional tools
for studying literary transmission.
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