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Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
Casey Dué (Ed.)
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Hardback. "Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822]", known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century CE. This title contains high-resolution images of the manuscript. Editor(s): Due, Casey. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 771.
Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand ... Read more
Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Hellenic Studies Series
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674032026
SKU
V9780674032026
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About Casey Dué (Ed.)
Casey Dué is Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. Graeme D. Bird is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Gordon College. Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
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