Culture In Pieces : Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons Hardback
Edited by Dirk (Lecturer in Papyrology and Tutor in Greek, Christ Church, Oxford University) Obbink, Richard (Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature, Christ Church College, Oxford University.) Rutherford
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This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1989 to 2003.
The contributors, who are former pupils, colleagues or collaborators with Peter Parsons, share a deep admiration for him and his work.
Peter Parsons has, throughout his career, been engaged in research on newly discovered papyrus texts, and such texts play an important partin this volume's discussions.
He has also constantly sought to use these texts to illuminate the literary and cultural history of antiquity.
The essays in this volume are suitably diverse, reflecting the broad interests of the honorand: they straddle prose and verse, literary and subliterary texts,addressing both theoretical issues and specific practical problems of interpretation which contribute to the difficulties faced in giving form and meaning to the diverse and fragmentary evidence of ancient literary history - to give some kind of partial unity to 'culture in pieces'.
Broader topics considered include the methodology of editing fragments, the problems of identifying authorship (New Comedy being treated as a test case), the ambiguities of texts which may or may not be read as ironic, and the development of the Greek novel. Among major authors treated are Pindar, Euripides, Menander, Callimachus, and Ovid.
The volume also includes an introduction outlining Peter Parsons's career and achievements, and a bibliography of his publications.
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- Pages:368 pages, 16 in text and 24 colour plates
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/06/2011
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 16 in text and 24 colour plates
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- Publication Date:16/06/2011
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- ISBN:9780199292011