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Scholarship

History of Classical Scholarship, methodology, bibliography, polemics, reviews, &c.

There are 48 posts filed in Scholarship (this is page 6 of 16).

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Digital Find of the Day: Housman’s Opuscula

This one is a real treat, but very odd: a work on Google Books listed as Opuscula by A.E. Housman. The truth is that no such work was published, and w

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Dennis in Language, Reviews, Scholarship | March 6, 2010 | 331 Words

An unnecessary emendation? (Aeneid I. 343)

One of the principles that drove Housman’s approach to textual criticism was encapsulated in a quotation he had picked up from Moritz Haupt: “The prim

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Dennis in Language, Literature, Scholarship | February 25, 2010 | 1,062 Words

Learn to read Etruscan (as well as you possibly can)

Perhaps the most exciting and rewarding class I took as an undergraduate (about 7-8 years ago), was Languages of Ancient Italy with Rex Wallace. We st

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Dennis in Reviews, Scholarship | December 21, 2009 | 403 Words

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