Craterus and the Use of Inscriptions in Ancient Scholarship

1999 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Higbie
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Scholarship

The First and Second Letters to Timothy

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Timothy Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Ancient Scholarship ◽  
The Church

The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading in today's world. They contain much that make modern readers uncomfortable, and much that is controversial, including pronouncements on the place of women in the Church and on homosexuality, as well as polemics against the so-called "false teachers." They have also been of a source of questions within the scholarly community, where the prevailing opinion since the nineteenth century is that someone else wrote the letters and signed Paul's name in order to give them greater authority. Using the best of modern and ancient scholarship, Luke Timothy Johnson provides clear, accessible commentary that will help lay readers navigate the letters and better understand their place within the context Paul's teachings. Johnson's conclusion that they were indeed written by Paul himself ensures that this volume, like the other Anchor Bible Commentaries, will attract the attention of theologians and other scholars.

CALLIMACHUS IN THE PINDAR SCHOLIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 152-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Scholarship ◽  
Canonical Status

This article analyses how Callimachus was cited in ancient scholarship on Pindar. A survey of references to literary authors in the scholia establishes that commentaries provided only minimal specification of relations between the texts concerned. Despite this, commentaries were important intertextual sites. In providing information that supplements Pindar's texts, citations of Callimachus contribute to the latter's canonical status by treating his poetry as an authoritative source of mythological and historical details. The juxtaposition of the two authors in commentaries also allowed for an exploration of their literary relationship.

Ancient Scholarship and Virgil's Use of Republican Latin Poetry. I

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Jocelyn
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Ancient Scholarship ◽  
Long Line ◽  
Early Republican

From the scholarly activity of the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. stem several collections of scholia to the poems of Virgil, most of which make copious reference to prose and verse composed in Latin before Virgil's time. The authors of these scholia were the last of a long line of commentators whose labours began soon after Virgil's death. Just as Virgil walked in the tracks of Theocritus, Hesiod, Aratus, Nicander, Homer, and Apollonius, so did his students in the tracks of the great Alexandrian expositors of the Greek poets. They sought to explain Virgil not only through Virgil himself, but also through the poets and prose writers, Greek and Latin, whom they imagined Virgil to have read. Thus we have scholia citing early republican literature in order to parallel words uncommon in or absent from the fourth-century classical syllabus, as well as unclassical usages, inflections, and constructions; in order to demonstrate ‘imitations’ on the part of Virgil; and in order to elucidate the structure of episodes of the three poems where Virgil appears to depart from the most commonly known versions of myth and history. Argument concerning the text or interpretation of a disputed passage is frequently based on appeal to the usage of Virgil's Latin predecessors.

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