Expurgating the classics : editing out in Greek and Latin /
Harrison, S. J.
Stray, Christopher.
London : Bristol Classical Press,
2012.
"In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial and Catullus to the expurgation of schoolboy texts, the Loeb Classical Library and the Penguin Classics. The contributors draw on evidence from the papers of editors, and on material in publishing archives. The introduction discusses the different types of expurgation, and how it differs from related phenomena such as censorship"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray -- Unnatural selection : expurgation of Greek melic, elegiac and iambic poetry / Ewin Bowie -- 'Seeing the meat for what it is' : Aristophanic expurgation and its phallacies / Ian Ruffell -- Headlam's Herodas : the art of suggestion / Daniel Orrells -- Flowers in the wilderness : Greek epigram in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Gideon Nisbet -- 'Contempta relinquas' : anxiety and expurgation in the publication of Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' / David Butterfield -- Expurgating Horace, 1600-1900 / Stephen Harrison -- Modifying Martial in nineteenth-century Britain / T. J. Leary -- Catullus and 'comment in English' : the tradition of the expurgated commentary before Fordyce / Gail Trimble -- 'From out the schoolboy's vision' : expurgation and the young reader / James Morwood -- For the gentleman and the scholar : sexual and scatological references in the Loeb Classical Library / Philip Lawton -- How to fillet a Penguin / Robert Crowe -- Afterword / Deborah H. Roberts.
"In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial and Catullus to the expurgation of schoolboy texts, the Loeb Classical Library and the Penguin Classics. The contributors draw on evidence from the papers of editors, and on material in publishing archives. The introduction discusses the different types of expurgation, and how it differs from related phenomena such as censorship"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket.
Classical literature
Expurgated books.