A History of Classical Scholarship : Volumes I-II-III / From the Sixth century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages / From the Revival of Learning to the end of the Eighteenth century / The Eighteenth century in Germany, and the Nineteenth

by: Sandys, J.E.

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A history of classical scholarship

Author: John Edwin Sandys

Summary:Ranging from 600 BC to the modern times, this set includes material on all aspects of classical scholarship -- history, archaeology, philosophy, literature, religion, politics -- as well as providing accounts of the principal figures who helped determine the course of classical scholarship through the ages. Beginning in the Athenian age, this work traces the growth of scholarship in Alexandrian and Roman times, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the study of the Classics in Europe and the USA up to the end of the nineteenth century

3 volumes illustrations, portraits 22 cm

This 3 volumes set contains the following titles:

Volume I: From the Sixth century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages

Table of Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
Titles of certain works of reference
Abbreviations
Addenda and corrigenda
1. Definition of 'scholar' and 'scholarship'
Book I. The Athenian Age, c.600–c.300 B.C.:
2. The study of epic poetry
3. The study of lyric poetry
4. The study and criticism of dramatic poetry
5. The theory of poetry in Homer, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle
6. The rise of rhetoric, and the study of prose
7. The beginnings of grammar and etymology
Book II. The Alexandrian Age, c.300–1 B.C.:
8. The school of Alexandria
9. The Stoics and the school of Pergamon
Book III. The Roman Age of Latin Scholarship, c.168 B.C.–c.530 A.D.:
10. Latin scholarship from the death of Ennius (169 B.C.) to the Augustan Age
11. Latin scholarship from the Augustan Age to 300 A.D.
12. Latin scholarship from 300 to 500 A.D.
13. Latin scholarship from 500 to 530 A.D.
Book IV. The Roman Age of Greek Scholarship, c.1–c.530 A.D.:
14. Roman study of Greek between 164 B.C. and 143 A.D.
15. Greek literary criticism in the first century of the Empire
16. Verbal scholarship in the first century of the Empire
17. The literary revival at the end of the first century
18. Greek scholarship in the second century
19. Greek scholarship in the third century
20. Greek scholarship in the fourth century
21. Greek scholarship from 400 to 530 A.D.
Book V. The Byzantine Age, c.530–c.1350 A.D.:
22. Byzantine scholarship from 529 to 1000 A.D.
23. Period III 850–1350 continued
Book VI. The Middle Ages in the West c.530–c.1350 A.D.:
24. Gregory the Great
25. Charles the Great and Alcuin
26. The tenth century
27. The eleventh century
28. The twelfth century
29. The twelfth century continued
30. The thirteenth century
31. The thirteenth century and after
32. The mediaeval copyists and the classics
Index
Greek index.

Volume II: From the Revival of Learning to the end of the Eighteenth century (in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands)

Table of Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
Select bibliography
Book I. The Revival of Learning in Italy, c.1321–c.1527 A.D.:
1. Introduction
2. The Villa Paradiso and San Spirito
3. The recovery of the Latin classics by Poggio, Landriani, Francesco Pizzolpasso, Enoch of Ascoli, Sannazaro, Politian, Giorgio Galbiate, Parrasio, and Fra Giocondo, and of the Greek classics by Guarino, Aurispa and Filelfo, Bessarion, Constantine and Janus Lascaris
4. The early Medicean age in Florence
5. The earlier Greek immigrants
6. The later Greek immigrants
7. The Academy of Florence - Landino, Ficino, Pico, Politian
8. The printing of the classics in Italy
9. Leo X and his patronage of learning
Book II. The Sixteenth Century
10. Erasmus
11. Italy from 1527 to 1600
12. Spain
13. France from 1360 to 1600
14. The Netherlands from 1400 to the foundation of the university of Leyden, 1575
15. England from 1370 to 1600
16. Germany from 1350 to 1616
Book III. The Seventeenth Century
17. Italy in the seventeenth century
18. France in the seventeenth century
19. The Netherlands from the foundation of the university of Leyden (1575) to 1700
20. England in the seventeenth century
21. Germany in the seventeenth century
Book IV. The Eighteenth Century
22. Italy in the eighteenth century
23. France in the eighteenth century
24. England in the eighteenth century
25. The Netherlands in the eighteenth century
Index.

Volume III: The Eighteenth century in Germany, and the Nineteenth century in Europe and the United States of America

Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Book IV. The Eighteenth Century continued:
26. Germany in the eighteenth century
27. Germany in the eighteenth century continued
Book V. The Nineteenth Century
28. F. A. Wolf and his contemporaries
29. Hermann and Boeckh
30. Grammarians and textual critics, from Lobeck to Ritschl
31. Editors of Greek classics
32. Editors of Latin classics
33. Comparative philologists
34. Archaeologists
35. Italy in the nineteenth century
36. France in the nineteenth century
37. The Netherlands in the nineteenth century
38. Scandinavia
39. Greece, Russia, Hungary
40. England in the nineteenth century
41. The United States of America
Addenda
Index.

Subjects:
Classical philology
Classical philology History
Filologie
History
Klassieke talen
Learning and scholarship
Philologie ancienne Histoire
Philology, Classical history
Savoir et érudition

A History of Classical Scholarship : Volumes I-II-III / From the Sixth century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages / From the Revival of Learning to the end of the Eighteenth century / The Eighteenth century in Germany, and the Nineteenth

by: Sandys, J.E.

• Hafner Publishing Co., New York, 1958

Price: 195,00 EURO

1 copy in stock