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On the Track of the Books - Scribes, Libraries and Textual Transmission (Hardcover)
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On the Track of the Books - Scribes, Libraries and Textual Transmission (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
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This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual
transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first
section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient
writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both
a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or
immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek
texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers
will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at
the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great
attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work.
The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship:
the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The
scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the
text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some
interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books
they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they
engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors
of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields
dealing with textual criticism.
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