Ugolini Gherardo - History of Classical Philology: From Bentley to the 20th century

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History of Classical Philology

Trends in Classics Scholarship in the Making

Edited by

Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos

Advisory Board

Constanze Gthenke Stephen Harrison

Luigi Lehnus Irmgard Mnnlein-Robert

Filippomaria Pontani Stefan Rebenich

Volume 2

History of Classical Philology

From Bentley to the 20th Century

Edited by

Diego Lanza and Gherardo Ugolini

Translated by

Antonella Lettieri

Published with the contribution of the University of Verona, Department of Cultures and Civilizations.

This volume was first published in Italian: Diego Lanza, Gherardo Ugolini, Storia della filologia classica Carocci editore, Roma 2016. New edition 2020.

ISBN 978-3-11-072266-6

e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-073038-8

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ISSN 2701-1100

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022930728

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Wenn wir die Vergangenheit unserer Wissenschaft nicht begreifen, werden wir auch selbst ziellos durch die Gegenwart tappen (If we do not understand the past of our science, we will end up wandering aimlessly in the present). , 8190).

For a long time, an updated history of classical philology has been a desideratum of classical scholars. In fact, the histories that are currently available are mostly outdated and in many ways obsolete although they certainly continue to be valuable as historical documents. A brief list of these histories should include at least ).

The first edition of this volume was published in Italian in 2016 under the title Storia della filologia classica by the Rome-based publisher Carocci. The volume was well-received, as is evident from its good reviews and the fact that it was awarded the Premio Nazionale italiano per leditoria accademica (Italian national prize for academic publishing), presented by the Associazione Italiana del Libro (Italian Book Society). While the Italian edition was mainly intended for university students in Italy, the current edition in English aims at a more international approach. All the essays in the volume have been revised, adapted, and updated and some errata have been corrected. I would like to express my most heartfelt thanks to the authors of the essays, to the translator Antonella Lettieri for working with commendable expertise and thoroughness, and to the publisher De Gruyter and, in particular, the team of the Editorial Office for Classical Studies for publishing this volume in the series Trends in Classics Scholarship in the Making.

I dedicate this volume to my teacher, colleague and friend Diego Lanza, who has shared the responsibility of this project with me ever since it was first conceived and who, unfortunately, passed away in March 2018. Lanza, who always championed the need to overcome barriers between the different fields of knowledge, was fond of repeating the methodological principle, already expressed by Giorgio Pasquali, according to which in the study of antiquity there are no disciplines, but only problems that need to be solved. This principle, among the others, informs also our History of Classical Philology.

Gherardo Ugolini

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The anecdote is certainly untrue. However, it is well concocted to evoke a symbolically meaningful scene. In eastern lands in Persia, in Armenia the story went that, when Alexander the Conqueror arrived in Assyria, he was shown Ashurbanipals great library in Nineveh. Alexander was fascinated by the grand project of gathering the worlds wealth of knowledge in one building and decided that he too would build, in his new capital, a great library that would collect every book ever written, thus creating a new temple to universal knowledge.