Reading Sulpicia Commentaries 1475 - 1990

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ISBN: 9780199245734 | 0199245738
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/11/2002

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Focusing on the representation of the Augustan poet Sulpicia in commentaries, this book investigates the interpretative strategies involved in the reading of an ancient text. Mathilde Skoie discusses a selection of commentaries from the Renaissance to the present day, combining the history of classical scholarship, philology, feminist literary theory, and reception theory.

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Introduction	p. 1
The First Steps: From Antiquity to Cyllenius' Fifteenth-Century Commentary	p. 25
Confronting a Sibylline Leaf: Scaliger's Sixteenth-Century Commentary	p. 65
Male Chivalry: Heyne's Eighteenth-Century Commentary	p. 111
Subtle Poetry or Feminine Fiddling? Two Nineteenth-Century Commentaries	p. 162
Sulpicia Americana: Smith's Twentieth-Century Commentary	p. 257
Conclusion: The Hermeneutics of Commenting	p. 308
The Poems: text of the Sulpicia poems (Corpus Tibullianum 3.13-18) with a checklist of the different numbering conventions and translation	p. 315
App. 2: Sample of Commentaries	p. 319
Bibliography	p. 327
Index	p. 353
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Reading Sulpicia Commentaries 1475 - 1990

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