Recapturing a Homeric Legacy Images and Insights from the Venetus a Manuscript of the Iliad |
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| Editor:
| Dué, Casey |
| Contribution by:
| Zorzi, Marino
Marcon, Susy
Bird, Graeme D.
Blackwell, Christopher W.
Ebbott, Mary
Hecquet-Devienne, Myriam
Jacobs, David
Kalevresou, Ioli
Nagy, Gregory |
| Series title: | Hellenic Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-03202-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $69.95 |
Book Description:
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Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted in the tenth century CE. New technology offers an opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature.
Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted in the tenth century CE. New technology offers an opportunity to rediscover this scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation of Western literature.