Description
Book SynopsisThis major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.
Trade ReviewHunt, Smith, and Stok have produced a valuable and useful book…Especially as Classics continues to be a source of interest and even contention in the public eye, the history of the field should remain of vital interest to students…The present volume offers a rich and engaging starting point. * New England Classical Journal *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Foreword by Craig Kallendorf
- Chapter 1. Writing and Literature in Antiquity
- Chapter 2. Grammar, Scholarship, and Scribal Practice from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Chapter 3. Classical Reception from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Chapter 4. Classics and Humanists
- Chapter 5. Classical Texts in the Age of Printing
- Chapter 6. Tools for the Modern Scholar
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
