Ope Ingenii: Experiences of Textual Criticism

by Gian Biagio Conte

This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. All Greek and Latin passages included are literally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110312727
• ISBN13: 9783110312720
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"