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The Greek Anthology: From Meleager to Planudes

Door Alan Cameron

Categorie	Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer	#423942-YC9
Titel	The Greek Anthology: From Meleager to Planudes
Auteur	Cameron, Alan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0198140231
ISBN13	9780198140238
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, frontispiece, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The Greek Anthology is one of the great books of European literature, "a garden containing the flowers and weeds of 1500 years of Greek epigram." Cameron's study adds a wealth of new information about its growth over an even longer period, from the earliest papyrus anthologies down to the 1606 rediscovery of the Palatine Anthology (AP), our principal source for the entire history of Greek epigram, from Simonides to the Byzantine age. It was a Byzantine schoolmaster, Constantine Cephalas, who excerpted all the major ancient collections around 900. His work is reconstructed from a closer analysis of AP (ca 940) and the various later collections. Following a number of neglected clues, Cameron identifies the compiler of AP as Constantine the Rhodian, and solves the mystery of the wan... (Lees verder)derings of AP during the renaissance, showing that it once belonged to Sir Thomas More.
Pagina's	413
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 100,00

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