Interpreting a classic
Subtitle: Demosthenes and his ancient commentators
By: Craig A. Gibson.
Series: The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Demosthenes -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Oratory, Ancient.
Description: "Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly lost tradition of ancient scholarship, Craig A. Gibson tells the story of how one group of ancient scholars helped their readers understand this man's writings.

This book collects for the first time, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes. Using these texts to illuminate an important aspect of Graeco-Roman antiquity that has hitherto been difficult to glimpse, this book gives a detailed portrait of a scholarly industry that touched generations of ancient readers from the first century B.C. to the fifth century and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART ONE The Ancient Commentaries on Demosthenes I; title: 1. Form and Transmission 13; title: 2. Sources, Agenda, and Readership 26; title: 3. Didymus 5I; title: PART TWO Texts, Translations, and Notes 71; title: 1. Commentary on Dem. 9-II and 13 (P.Berol.inv. 9780) 77; title: 2. Didymus Fragments in Harpocration 137; title: 3. Lexicon to Dem. 23 (P.Berol.inv. 5008) 157; title: 4. Commentary on Dem. 5 (P.Berol.inv. z i88) 172; title: 5. Commentary on Dem. zz (P.Stras.inv. 84) 175; title: 6. Lexicon to Dem. zi (P.Rain.inv. 7) I90; title: Appendix: Rhetorical Prologue and Commentary; title: on Dem. zi (P.Lond.Lit. 79) 201.