Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110210194
,
9783110201246
Content:
The handbook illustrates 94 Greek literary papyrus texts from Egypt and Herculaneum and documents the different types of scripts used in copying works of Greek literature, from the earliest surviving bookrolls written in the 4th century BC up to the first century AD. The aim is twofold: (1) to establish their relative (and, wherever possible, absolute) chronological sequence, and (2) to distinguish and characterize their stylistic features. Specimens of different types of scripts (hands) that appear stylistically related have been grouped together. In their joint introduction, the authors summarize the main results of their investigation and attempt to identify the social and cultural factors that have determined the development of different types of Greek literary scripts during the Hellenistic and Augustan era. The book also contains a comprehensive bibliography and indices.Hellenistic Bookhands is a tool for scholars and students of Classics, Greek papyrology, palaeography, and the transmission of Classical Greek literature.
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110201246
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110210194
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hellenistic bookhands Berlin : de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 9783110201246
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-021019-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Griechisch
;
Buchschrift
;
Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr.
;
Hellenismus
;
Handschrift
;
Paläographie
;
Griechische Schrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110210194
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Cavallo, Guglielmo 1938-
