Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras by Adams, Sean A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Themes in Ancient Scholarship Scholastic Research in the Archive? Hellenistic Historians and Ancient Archival Records

Circulation of Lexica in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Period

Dissemination of Hellenistic Scholarship The Lexicographical Tradition Post-Hellenistic Repositories of Knowledge Alternative Modes of Publication and the Fate of Pamphilus’ Lexicon Conclusions

‘Bookish Places’ in Imperial Rome: Bookshops and the Urban Landscape of Learning Towards a Typology of the Ancient Latin Legal Book

What the Sources Tell Us: capita and rubricae in literary texts, papyri, and inscriptions Rubrics from Antiquity to Late Antiquity An alternative Solution for the Same Text: The Institutes of Gaius Palaeography Latin Characters in Search of an Author Conclusion

New Readings in the Text of Herodian

Herodian and his Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας

The editions of Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome

New readings

Personal names City names Ethnic designations Rare words and hapaxes

Conclusions

What does a Linguistic Expert Know? The Conflict between Analogy and Atticism

Suetonius the Bibliographer

De uiris illustribus: Models De uiris illustribus: Practice Conclusion

Translating Texts: Contrasting Roman and Jewish Depictions of Literary Translations

Translation in Ancient Education Roman and Jewish Translations

Translations by Latin Authors Jewish Authors and Translation Similarities and Differences between Roman and Jewish Translations

Conclusion

The Social Contexts of Rabbinic and Graeco-Roman Intellectual Pursuits Palestinian Rabbis and the Second Sophistic

The Compilation of Earlier Traditions The Use of the Dispute Form

Conclusion Notes

Bibliography Subject Index Author Index Works Cited