Culture In Pieces

Informationen zum Autor Dirk Obbink has held positions at Columbia and Ann Arbor. He was appointed University Lecturer in Papyrology in 1995 and has taught in Oxford since. Richard Rutherford has been Tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982. Klappentext This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The essays consider a variety of problems, addressing questions of literary history, source-criticism, editorial method, and scholarly technique. Zusammenfassung This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1989 to 2003. The contributors, who are former pupils, colleagues or collaborators with Peter Parsons, share a deep admiration for him and his work. Peter Parsons has, throughout his career, been engaged in research on newly discovered papyrus texts, and such texts play an important part in this volume's discussions. He has also constantly sought to use these texts to illuminate the literary and cultural history of antiquity. The essays in this volume are suitably diverse, reflecting the broad interests of the honorand: they straddle prose and verse, literary and subliterary texts, addressing both theoretical issues and specific practical problems of interpretation which contribute to the difficulties faced in giving form and meaning to the diverse and fragmentary evidence of ancient literary history - to give some kind of partial unity to 'culture in pieces'. Broader topics considered include the methodology of editing fragments, the problems of identifying authorship (New Comedy being treated as a test case), the ambiguities of texts which may or may not be read as ironic, and the development of the Greek novel. Among major authors treated are Pindar, Euripides, Menander, Callimachus, and Ovid. The volume also includes an introduction outlining Peter Parsons's career and achievements, and a bibliography of his publications. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction 1: Dirk Obbink: Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco 2: M. L. West: Pindar as a Man of Letters 3: S. R. West: The Papyri of Herodotus 4: Richard Rutherford: The Use and Abuse of Irony 5: Adrian Hollis: Greek Letters in Hellenistic Bactria 6: Menander and his Rivals: New Light from the Comic Adespota on Papyria 7: Eric Handley: The Rediscovery of Menander 8: Colin Austin: My Daughter and her Dowry : Smikrines in Menander s Epitrepontes 9: Annette Harder: More Facts from Fragments 10: Susan Stephens: Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus 11: Giulio Massimilla: Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.) 12: Richard Hunter: The Reputation of Callimachus 13: Gregory Hutchinson: Telling Tales: Ovid s Metamorphoses and Callimachus 14: Michael Winterbottom: On Ancient Prose Rhythm: The Story of the Dichoreus 15: Christoph Riedweg: Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek Fragments and Arabic Versions 16: Albert Henrichs: Missing Pages: Papyrology, Genre, and the Greek Novel Bibliography of Peter Parsons Indexes ...

Klappentext
This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The essays consider a variety of problems, addressing questions of literary history, source-criticism, editorial method, and scholarly technique.

Zusammenfassung
This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1989 to 2003. The contributors, who are former pupils, colleagues or collaborators with Peter Parsons, share a deep admiration for him and his work. Peter Parsons has, throughout his career, been engaged in research on newly discovered papyrus texts, and such texts play an important part in this volume's discussions. He has also constantly sought to use these texts to illuminate the literary and cultural history of antiquity. The essays in this volume are suitably diverse, reflecting the broad interests of the honorand: they straddle prose and verse, literary and subliterary texts, addressing both theoretical issues and specific practical problems of interpretation which contribute to the difficulties faced in giving form and meaning to the diverse and fragmentary evidence of ancient literary history - to give some kind of partial unity to 'culture in pieces'. Broader topics considered include the methodology of editing fragments, the problems of identifying authorship (New Comedy being treated as a test case), the ambiguities of texts which may or may not be read as ironic, and the development of the Greek novel. Among major authors treated are Pindar, Euripides, Menander, Callimachus, and Ovid. The volume also includes an introduction outlining Peter Parsons's career and achievements, and a bibliography of his publications.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1: Dirk Obbink: Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco
2: M. L. West: Pindar as a Man of Letters
3: S. R. West: The Papyri of Herodotus
4: Richard Rutherford: The Use and Abuse of Irony
5: Adrian Hollis: Greek Letters in Hellenistic Bactria
6: Menander and his Rivals: New Light from the Comic Adespota on Papyria
7: Eric Handley: The Rediscovery of Menander
8: Colin Austin: My Daughter and her Dowry : Smikrines in Menander s Epitrepontes
9: Annette Harder: More Facts from Fragments
10: Susan Stephens: Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus
11: Giulio Massimilla: Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.)
12: Richard Hunter: The Reputation of Callimachus
13: Gregory Hutchinson: Telling Tales: Ovid s Metamorphoses and Callimachus
14: Michael Winterbottom: On Ancient Prose Rhythm: The Story of the Dichoreus
15: Christoph Riedweg: Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek Fragments and Arabic Versions
16: Albert Henrichs: Missing Pages: Papyrology, Genre, and the Greek Novel
Bibliography of Peter Parsons
Indexes

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