Expurgating the Classics : Editing Out in Latin and Greek
Stephen. Harrison
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (233 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Unnatural selection: expurgation of Greek melic, elegiac and iambic poetry; 2. 'Seeing the meat for what it is': Aristophanic expurgation and its phallacies; 3. Headlam's Herodas: the art of suggestion; 4. Flowers in the wilderness: Greek epigram in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 5. Contempta relinquas: anxiety and expurgation in the publication of Lucretius' De rerum natura; 6. Expurgating Horace, 1660-1900; 7. Modifying Martial in nineteenth-century Britain. - 8. Catullus and 'comment in English': the tradition of the expurgated commentary before Fordyce9. 'From out the schoolboy's vision': expurgation and the young reader; 10. For the gentleman and the scholar: sexual and scatological references in the Loeb Classical Library; 11. How to fillet a Penguin; Afterword; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X. - 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 both the differ
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| ISBN | 9781849668927
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