Brill's companion to ancient Greek scholarship

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Contents VOLUME 1 Preface Part 1- History 1 Greek Scholarship from its Beginnings to Alexandria Anna Novokhatko 2 Hellenistic Scholarship Fausto Montana 3 Philology and Grammar in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity: An Historical and Systematic Outline Stephanos Matthaios 4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529-1453) Filippomaria Pontani Part 2- Disciplinary Profiles 1 The Sources of our Knowledge of Ancient Scholarship Eleanor Dickey 2 Definitions of Grammar Alfons Wouters-Pierre Swiggers 3 Typology of Philological Writings Markus Dubischar 4 Typology of Grammatical Treatises Stefano Valente 5 Typology of Lexicographical Works Renzo Tosi VOLUME 2 Part 3 - Between Theory and Practice Section 3.1 - Scholarship 1 Ekdosis. A Product of the Ancient Scholarship Franco Montanari 2 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer Richard Hunter 3 Poetics and Literary Criticism in the Framework of Ancient Greek Scholarship Rene Nunlist Section 3.2 - Grammar 1 Description of the Constituent Elements of the (Greek) Language Pierre Swiggers and Alfons Wouters 2 Language Correctness (Hellenismos) and Its Criteria Lara Pagani 3 Syntax Jean Lallot 4 Ancient Etymology: A Tool for Thinking Ineke Sluiter 5 Ancient Theory of Prosody Philomen Probert 6 Orthography Stefano Valente Section 3.3 - Philological and Linguistic Observations and Theories in Interdisciplinary Context 1 Grammatical Theory and Rhetorical Teaching Casper C. de Jonge 2 Philological Observations and Approaches to Language in the Philosophical Context Walter Lapini 3 Mythography Claudio Meliado 4 Historiography, Ethnography, Geography Roberto Nicolai 5 Medicine and Exegesis Daniela Manetti 6 Hellenistic Astronomers and Scholarship Raffaele Luiselli 7 On the Interface of Philology and Science: The Case of Zoology Oliver Hellmann Bibliography General Index Passages Index