Tag Archives: Geschichte der Philologie
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, R.I.P.
The great classical scholar has died.
On the Invention of the Hellenistic Age
More from Pfeiffer, this time on Claudius Salmasius (1588–1653): In 1632, after the chair had been vacant for twenty-three years, [Salmasius] became Scaliger’s successor at Leyden. There he found the leisure to publish the series of books already mentioned, to … Continue reading
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On the Versification of the Bible
No, not as in paraphrasing the Bible in meter (though I’m interested in that, too), but as in actually placing verse-divisions in the text, accomplished by Robert Etienne/Robertus Stephanus (d. 1559). More from Pfeiffer: In the year after the completion … Continue reading
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Melanchthon’s Family Tree
I did not know that Melanchthon was a relative of Johannes Reuchlin, ‘the first great exponent of Greek studies in Germany’ (Pfeiffer, vol. 2, p. 86). Pfeiffer to the rescue (again): One of [Reuchlin’s] pupils, Georg Simler, the author of … Continue reading
Politian and the Editing of Callimachus
More from Pfeiffer, on the learned Angelo Ambrogini (i.e., Poliziano), who was tutor to the children of Lorenzo the Magnificent and lecture on Latin and Greek literature: In [Politian’s] circle the text of Callimachus’ Hymns was most eagerly copied, and … Continue reading
Kitchen Latin
R. Pfeiffer writes the following on the origin of such terms as ‘kitchen Latin’ in the context of the dispute between Lorenzo Valla and Poggio Bracciolini over Latin style. Valla wished ‘to fix a strict definition of the ancient ‘usus … Continue reading
On the Origin of ‘Humanism’
I’ve been reading the second volume of R. Pfeiffer’s History of Classical Scholarship (which covers 1300–1850) and thought this was interesting (in his discussion of the significance of Petrarch): We have often been told that humanism arose from the social … Continue reading
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff/Homer’s Iliad
BMCR has a new review of a book that looks very interesting, which is centered around ‘the publication of a nearly word for word transcript of Wilamowitz’s lectures on Homer’s Iliad in 1887/1888′. The reviewer, Edith Foster, goes on to … Continue reading
Gow’s Housman
Before Saranike and I head out to do a little book hunting I thought I’d recommend A.S.F. Gow’s A.E. Housman: a sketch together with a list of his writing and indexes to his classical papers. Why that long and odd … Continue reading
Sandys’s History of Classical Scholarship
LEFT: My brand spanking new copy. RIGHT: the library’s old copy, which is yellowed and falling apart. This is what I asked of my parents for Christmas this year: a facsimile edition of John Edwin Sandys’s A History of Classical … Continue reading
