A new project (Representing Citations in the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus), directed by Monica Berti in collaboration with Virgilio Costa, aims at investigating the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus in order to (1) carry out a systematic survey of the citations preserved in the fifteen books of Athenaeus’ work, (2) build a fully comprehensive repository of the quotation [...]
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December 2 2009
The edition of fragmentary texts: scattered remarks
Virgilio Costa sends us a document on the practice of editing and commenting fragments of ancient Greek historians: The Edition of Fragmentary Texts: scattered remarks In this document he reflects on the fundamental duties of an editor when working with fragmentary texts. Virgilio Costa is professor of Greek history at the University of Rome Tor [...]
