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Interpolation in Thucydides
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 150
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The scraps of hard evidence are carefully sifted from the putative so as to uncover the probable extent and nature of interpolation in Thucydides. This gives a coarse but firm “typology,” which may be of some use in the study of other MS traditions, and clarifies hard passages many of which are discussed in depth, so that the book's Index Locorum can be a tool for students of this author.
Separate chapters examine evidence given by MS disagreement, by a long inscription, by papyri, by scholiasts, by Valla's translation and more. A chapter analyzes the types of mechanical “interpolation” another, the hypothesis of Hellenistic “editing.” Constant close attention is paid to the stemma codicum (discussed also in an appendix) and to the smallest idiosyncrasies of Thucydides' style.
Separate chapters examine evidence given by MS disagreement, by a long inscription, by papyri, by scholiasts, by Valla's translation and more. A chapter analyzes the types of mechanical “interpolation” another, the hypothesis of Hellenistic “editing.” Constant close attention is paid to the stemma codicum (discussed also in an appendix) and to the smallest idiosyncrasies of Thucydides' style.
Karl Maurer, Ph.D. (1993) in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania; currently Language Analyst (for a modern Greek-English dictionary) at the Language Analysis Center, University of Pennsylvania.
'Karl Maurer of the University of Pennsylvania has written a scrupulous, distinguished and important book. Maurer proves hearteningly that work of the very highest value can still be and is being done on the most difficult and the most rewarding of Greek prose authors.'
Simon Hornblower, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1996.
Simon Hornblower, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1996.
Classical philologists; those interested, in Thucydides'texts; those curious about the transmission and probable present purity of ancient texts.