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Author:   Christina S. Kraus (Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin, Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin, Yale University) ,  Christopher Stray (Honorary Research Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History and Classics, Swansea University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9780199688982

ISBN 10:   0199688982
Pages:   554
Publication Date:   03 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Figures List of Contributors 1: Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray: Form and Content Part 1: Individuals: Commentaries and Modern Commentators 2: P. J. Finglass: Jebb's Sophocles 3: Christopher Stray: A Teutonic Monster in Oxford: The Making of Fraenkel's Agamemnon 4: Richard F. Thomas: My Back Pages 5: Stephen Harrison: Two-author Commentaries on Horace: Three Case Studies 6: S. P. Oakley: Dodd's Bacchae Part 2: Traditions: Commentaries on Specific Authors and Texts 7: Salvador Bartera: Commentary Writing on the Annals of Tacitus: Different Approaches for Different Audiences 8: Jackie Elliott: Commenting on Fragments: The Case of Early Roman Poetry 9: Armand D'Angour: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Text and Conjecture in Greek Lyric Commentary 10: Han Baltussen: Philosophers, Exegetes, Scholars: The Ancient Philosophical Commentary from Plato to Simplicius 11: Guido Milanese: Italian Commentaries on Lucretius 12: Justin Haynes: Citations of Ovid in Virgil's Ancient Commentators 13: John Davies: The Historical Commentary Part 3: Material: Form, Series, Markets 14: Paul F. Gehl: Selling Terence in Renaissance Italy: The Marketing Power of Commentary 15: Julia Gaisser: From Giovanni Pontano to Pierio Valeriano: Five renaissance Commentators on Latin Erotic Poetry 16: Stuart Gillespie: Translation and Commentary: Pope's Iliad 17: Christina S. Kraus: Agricolan Paratexts 18: Roy Gibson: Fifty Shades of Orange: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Part 4: Reception: History of Commentary 19: Caroline Bishop: Hipparchus Among the Detractors 20: Joseph Farrell: Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus' Idylls and Vergil's Eclogues 21: A. B. Kraebel: Biblical Exegesis and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Servius 22: Katherine Harloe: Christian Gottlob Heyne and the Changing Fortunes of the Commentary in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft 23: Penelope Wilson: Vauvilliers' Pindar and its Place in Pindaric Commentary Part 5: Futures: Commentaries and the Web 24: Peter J. Anderson: Heracles' Choice: Thoughts on the Virtues of Print and Digital Commentary 25: Peter Heslin: The Dream of a Universal Variorum: Digitizing the Commentary Tradition 26: Sander M. Goldberg: Afterword Index

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a book of exceptional quality which deserves to be widely read, and its lessons absorbed. OUP has done a fine job, worthy of its contents. Colin Leach, Classics for All This edited volume is a delight, one of those books that all classicists will want to read not only for the important information it contains, but also for sheer pleasure. And so, to commence: congratulations are in order to the editors and the contributors for composing and arranging a marvelous addition ... Classical Commentaries is an addictive read, and anyone who loves books will find something to appreciate in these pages ... [it has] done much to reveal the tantalizing secrets of the very books that seek to unveil the myriad mysteries of classical poetry and prose. Lee Fratantuono, Classical Journal Online

a book of exceptional quality which deserves to be widely read, and its lessons absorbed. OUP has done a fine job, worthy of its contents. * Colin Leach, Classics for All * This edited volume is a delight, one of those books that all classicists will want to read not only for the important information it contains, but also for sheer pleasure. And so, to commence: congratulations are in order to the editors and the contributors for composing and arranging a marvelous addition ... Classical Commentaries is an addictive read, and anyone who loves books will find something to appreciate in these pages ... [it has] done much to reveal the tantalizing secrets of the very books that seek to unveil the myriad mysteries of classical poetry and prose. * Lee Fratantuono, Classical Journal Online *

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Christina S. Kraus is Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin at Yale University Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University

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