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Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises: From Their Beginnings ... Association Classical Resources Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eleanor Dickey
Publisher: An American Philological Association Book
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0195312937
Dewey Decimal Number: 480.9
EAN: 9780195312935
ASIN: 0195312937
Publication Date: April 5, 2007
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Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that have been preserved on papyrus and via the manuscript tradition. Now, for the first time, there is an introduction to such scholarship that will enable students and scholars unfamiliar with this material to use it in their work. Ancient Greek Scholarship includes detailed discussion of the individual ancient authors on whose works scholia, commentaries, or single-author lexica exist, together with explanations of the probable sources of that scholarship and the ways it is now used, as well as descriptions of extant grammatical works and general lexica. These discussions, and the annotated bibliography of more than 1200 works, also include evaluations of the different texts of each work and of a variety of electronic resources.
This book not only introduces readers to ancient scholarship, but also teaches them how to read it. Here readers will find a detailed, step-by-step introduction to the language, a glossary of over 1500 grammatical terms, and a set of more than 200 passages for translation, each accompanied by commentary. The commentaries offer enough help to enable undergraduates with as little as two years of Greek to translate most passages with confidence; in addition, readers are given aids to handling the ancient numerical systems, understanding the references found in works of ancient scholarship, and using an apparatus criticus (including an extensive key to the abbreviations used in an apparatus). Half the passages are accompanied by a key, so that the book is equally suitable for those studying on their own and for classes with graded homework.
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Enormously helpful July 20, 2007
G. T. (NJ, USA)
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
I dare say that currently there is no other book like Eleanor Dickey's Ancient Greek Scholarship (AGS) available. Being truly one of a kind, AGS provides a much needed aid to aspiring classicists.
AGS is not a history or survey of Ancient Greek scholarship. Rather it is a guide to the resources with which every student of classics must become familiar in order to become a professional in the field. Thus, although it is very much written for beginners, it is not a book primarily for the beginner: It is written in a clear and accessible manner for someone who is not yet acquainted with the resources introduced in the book, and it does not assume any philological training on part of the reader and in that sense it is aimed at beginers. But beginners in classics, who have their hands full learning Latin and Greek and some Ancient History, will not have an urgent need for this book yet. Once they are ready to begin their gradual transformation into professionals AGS will be there to nurture and support them. Upper level college students and 1st and 2nd year graduate students will cherish this book.
The first chapter contains a general introduction. The second chapter surveys the available scholia (i.e. ancient comments, notes, and glosses found in ancient and medieval commentaries and in the margin of manuscripts) to archaic and classical poetry, classical prose, and Hellenistic literature. Dickey explains why some scholia are important while others are hard to use and diligently points out good editions of the texts. Chapter three is devoted to other scholarly works, such as various ancient grammatical treatises and lexica. Chapters 2-3 are not least valuable for Dickey's comments and tips to the reader, but also for the unique assembly of information.
Chapter 4 contains an introduction to the actual language and conventions of scholarly Greek. This chapter is invaluable because nowhere else can one find such an introduction. But a student who has mastered Ancient Greek ought to be able to read the comments of later commentators, right? Maybe, but it's still made difficult by certain conventions with which the student will most likely not be familiar. Chapter 5 has examples which the student can use to practice. A glossary of grammatical terms in chapter 6 is very helpful too, as well as the two appendices on how to find works on ancient scholarship in library catalogues and how to use facsimiles, the annotated bibliography and the three indices at the end of the book.
Whether you are a student of classical literature, ancient history, classical archaeology, ancient philosophy, or linguistics, if you are a person who would study antiquity professionally then this book will be incredibly helpful to you.
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