History of Classical Philology: From Bentley to the 20th century (Trends in Classics – Scholarship in the Making, 2)

An updated history of classical philology had long been a desideratum of scholars of the ancient world. The volume edited by Diego Lanza and Gherardo Ugolini is structured in three parts. In the first one ("Towards a science of antiquity") the approach of Anglo-Saxon philology (R. Bentley) and the institutionalization of the discipline in the German academic world (C.G. Heyne and F.A. Wolf) are described. In the second part ("The illusion of the archetype. Classical Studies in the Germany of the 19th Century") the theoretical contributions and main methodological disputes that followed are analysed (K. Lachmann, J.G. Hermann, A. Boeckh, F. Nietzsche and U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff). The last part ("The classical philology of the 20th century") treats the redefinition of classical studies after the Great War in Germany (W. Jaeger) and in Italy (G. Pasquali). In this context, the contributions of papyrology and of the new images of antiquity that have emerged in the works of writers, narrators, and translators of our time have been considered. This part finishes with the presentation of some of the most influential scholars of the last decades (B. Snell, E.R. Dodds, J.-P. Vernant, B. Gentili, N. Loraux). Preface to the Current Edition 5 Contents 9 Introduction 11 Part I: Towards a Science of Antiquity 19 Richard Bentley and Philology as the Art of Conjecture 19 Christian Gottlob Heyne: New Ways of Studying Antiquity 45 Friedrich August Wolf and the Birth of the Altertumswissenschaft 67 Humboldt, the Classical Gymnasium, and the University of Berlin 101 Part II: The Illusion of the Archetype. Classical Studies in Nineteenth-Century Germany 127 Karl Lachmann: Method and Science 127 Hermann contra Boeckh: Formal Philology and Historical Philology 143 Nietzsche and the Controversy over the Tragic 173 Wilamowitz: Philology as ‘Totality’ 199 Part III: Classical Philology in the Twentieth- Century 223 Werner Jaeger and the Third Humanism 223 Giorgio Pasquali and Philology as a Historical Science 249 New Antiquities: The Papyri 287 Retelling Antiquity: Words and Images 309 Postwar Philology: New Perspectives 327 Works of Classical Philology: A Select Bibliography 359 Notes on Contributors 361 Index of Names 365