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A History of Classical Scholarship 3 Volume Set

A History of Classical Scholarship 3 Volume Set

A History of Classical Scholarship 3 Volume Set

Author:
John Edwin Sandys
Published:
January 2011
Format:
Multiple copy pack
ISBN:
9781108027090

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    Sir John Edwin Sandys (1844–1922) was a leading Cambridge classicist and a Fellow of St. John's College. His most famous work is this three-volume History of Classical Scholarship, published between 1903 and 1908, which remains the only large-scale work on the subject to span the entire period from the sixth century BCE to the end of the nineteenth century. The history of classical studies was a popular topic during the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany, but Sandys stands out for the ambitious scope of his work, even though much of it was based on earlier scholarship. His chronological account is subdivided by genre and region, with some chapters devoted to particularly influential individuals. Volume 1 covers the Classical period, Byzantine scholarship, and the medieval West to 1350, Volume 2 the period from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and Volume 3 the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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    January 2011
    Multiple copy pack
    9781108027090
    1788 pages
    216 × 140 × 109 mm
    2.45kg
    82 b/w illus.
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    Table of Contents

    • Volume 1: Preface
    • List of illustrations
    • Titles of certain works of reference
    • Abbreviations
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • 1. Definition of 'scholar' and 'scholarship'
    • Book I. The Athenian Age, c.600–c.300 B.C.:
    • 2. The study of epic poetry
    • 3. The study of lyric poetry
    • 4. The study and criticism of dramatic poetry
    • 5. The theory of poetry in Homer, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle
    • 6. The rise of rhetoric, and the study of prose
    • 7. The beginnings of grammar and etymology
    • Book II. The Alexandrian Age, c.300–1 B.C.:
    • 8. The school of Alexandria
    • 9. The Stoics and the school of Pergamon
    • Book III. The Roman Age of Latin Scholarship, c.168 B.C.–c.530 A.D.:
    • 10. Latin scholarship from the death of Ennius (169 B.C.) to the Augustan Age
    • 11. Latin scholarship from the Augustan Age to 300 A.D.
    • 12. Latin scholarship from 300 to 500 A.D.
    • 13. Latin scholarship from 500 to 530 A.D.
    • Book IV. The Roman Age of Greek Scholarship, c.1–c.530 A.D.:
    • 14. Roman study of Greek between 164 B.C. and 143 A.D.
    • 15. Greek literary criticism in the first century of the Empire
    • 16. Verbal scholarship in the first century of the Empire
    • 17. The literary revival at the end of the first century
    • 18. Greek scholarship in the second century
    • 19. Greek scholarship in the third century
    • 20. Greek scholarship in the fourth century
    • 21. Greek scholarship from 400 to 530 A.D.
    • Book V. The Byzantine Age, c.530–c.1350 A.D.:
    • 22. Byzantine scholarship from 529 to 1000 A.D.
    • 23. Period III 850–1350 continued
    • Book VI. The Middle Ages in the West c.530–c.1350 A.D.:
    • 24. Gregory the Great
    • 25. Charles the Great and Alcuin
    • 26. The tenth century
    • 27. The eleventh century
    • 28. The twelfth century
    • 29. The twelfth century continued
    • 30. The thirteenth century
    • 31. The thirteenth century and after
    • 32. The mediaeval copyists and the classics
    • Index
    • Greek index. Volume 2: Preface
    • List of illustrations
    • Select bibliography
    • Book I. The Revival of Learning in Italy, c.1321–c.1527 A.D.:
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Villa Paradiso and San Spirito
    • 3. The recovery of the Latin classics by Poggio, Landriani, Francesco Pizzolpasso, Enoch of Ascoli, Sannazaro, Politian, Giorgio Galbiate, Parrasio, and Fra Giocondo, and of the Greek classics by Guarino, Aurispa and Filelfo, Bessarion, Constantine and Janus Lascaris
    • 4. The early Medicean age in Florence
    • 5. The earlier Greek immigrants
    • 6. The later Greek immigrants
    • 7. The Academy of Florence - Landino, Ficino, Pico, Politian
    • 8. The printing of the classics in Italy
    • 9. Leo X and his patronage of learning
    • Book II. The Sixteenth Century
    • 10. Erasmus
    • 11. Italy from 1527 to 1600
    • 12. Spain
    • 13. France from 1360 to 1600
    • 14. The Netherlands from 1400 to the foundation of the university of Leyden, 1575
    • 15. England from 1370 to 1600
    • 16. Germany from 1350 to 1616
    • Book III. The Seventeenth Century
    • 17. Italy in the seventeenth century
    • 18. France in the seventeenth century
    • 19. The Netherlands from the foundation of the university of Leyden (1575) to 1700
    • 20. England in the seventeenth century
    • 21. Germany in the seventeenth century
    • Book IV. The Eighteenth Century
    • 22. Italy in the eighteenth century
    • 23. France in the eighteenth century
    • 24. England in the eighteenth century
    • 25. The Netherlands in the eighteenth century
    • Index. Volume 3: List of illustrations
    • Book IV. The Eighteenth Century continued:
    • 26. Germany in the eighteenth century
    • 27. Germany in the eighteenth century continued
    • Book V. The Nineteenth Century
    • 28. F. A. Wolf and his contemporaries
    • 29. Hermann and Boeckh
    • 30. Grammarians and textual critics, from Lobeck to Ritschl
    • 31. Editors of Greek classics
    • 32. Editors of Latin classics
    • 33. Comparative philologists
    • 34. Archaeologists
    • 35. Italy in the nineteenth century
    • 36. France in the nineteenth century
    • 37. The Netherlands in the nineteenth century
    • 38. Scandinavia
    • 39. Greece, Russia, Hungary
    • 40. England i
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    • John Edwin Sandys