A History of Classical Scholarship
From the End of the Sixth Century B.C. to the End of the Middle Ages

This comprehensive history of classical learning from the sixth century BCE to 1900 was first published between 1903 and 1908.

John Edwin Sandys (Author)

9781108027069, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

706 pages, 20 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.9 cm, 0.88 kg

Sir John Edwin Sandys (1844–1922) was a leading Cambridge classicist and a Fellow of St. John's College. His most famous work is this three-volume History of Classical Scholarship, published between 1903 and 1908, which remains the only large-scale work on the subject to span the entire period from the sixth century BCE to the end of the nineteenth century. The history of classical studies was a popular topic during the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany, but Sandys stands out for the ambitious scope of his work, even though much of it was based on earlier scholarship. His chronological account is subdivided by genre and region, with some chapters devoted to particularly influential individuals. Volume 1 covers the Classical period, Byzantine scholarship, and the medieval West to 1350.

Preface
List of illustrations
Titles of certain works of reference
Abbreviations
Addenda and corrigenda
1. Definition of 'scholar' and 'scholarship'
Book I. The Athenian Age, c.600–c.300 B.C.: 2. The study of epic poetry
3. The study of lyric poetry
4. The study and criticism of dramatic poetry
5. The theory of poetry in Homer, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle
6. The rise of rhetoric, and the study of prose
7. The beginnings of grammar and etymology
Book II. The Alexandrian Age, c.300–1 B.C.: 8. The school of Alexandria
9. The Stoics and the school of Pergamon
Book III. The Roman Age of Latin Scholarship, c.168 B.C.–c.530 A.D.: 10. Latin scholarship from the death of Ennius (169 B.C.) to the Augustan Age
11. Latin scholarship from the Augustan Age to 300 A.D.
12. Latin scholarship from 300 to 500 A.D.
13. Latin scholarship from 500 to 530 A.D.
Book IV. The Roman Age of Greek Scholarship, c.1–c.530 A.D.: 14. Roman study of Greek between 164 B.C. and 143 A.D.
15. Greek literary criticism in the first century of the Empire
16. Verbal scholarship in the first century of the Empire
17. The literary revival at the end of the first century
18. Greek scholarship in the second century
19. Greek scholarship in the third century
20. Greek scholarship in the fourth century
21. Greek scholarship from 400 to 530 A.D.
Book V. The Byzantine Age, c.530–c.1350 A.D.: 22. Byzantine scholarship from 529 to 1000 A.D.
23. Period III 850–1350 continued
Book VI. The Middle Ages in the West c.530–c.1350 A.D.: 24. Gregory the Great
25. Charles the Great and Alcuin
26. The tenth century
27. The eleventh century
28. The twelfth century
29. The twelfth century continued
30. The thirteenth century
31. The thirteenth century and after
32. The mediaeval copyists and the classics
Index
Greek index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]