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KlappentextAmong the numerous commentators of Donatus´s Ars minor and maior, the African Pompeius, active V-VI century, is conspicuous for the characteristic verve in which he proceeds to illustrate every aspect of the traditional grammatical lore of which he is a proud mouthpiece. A peculiar character of his Commentum is an asymmetrical style, replete with spontaneous traits calling to one´s mind aspects of a spoken and oral performance - a feature suggestive to some of a quasi-stenographic transcription, perhaps from Pompeius´s viva voce teaching. A study of Pompeius´s work therefore proves of fundamental importance for our knowledge of school practices at the empire´s periphery.Anna Zago´s set of volumes includes a new critical edition of the third part of the Commentum of Donatus´s Ars maior, the so-called Barbarismus, devoted to vitia and virtutes orationis, the flaws´ and virtues´ of speech´: Pompeius´ work opens a very interesting window on the late grammatical writers´ growing awareness of the evolution of the Latin language, and his text is an important witness for some of the linguistic changes defining the so-called late Latin neo-standard. The edition is based on complete collations of all the manuscripts transmitting this part of the work (19, against the 4 manuscripts used in Keil´s Grammatici Latini) and it is introduced by an exhaustive presentation of the work´s transmission, its textual history and its philological problems. The volume has been provided with indices and an Italian translation has also been included, as a complementary tool for understanding the often complex Latin of the Commentum. The second volume contains a fully-fledged commentary in which all the most important textual problems receive an apt illustration; on a wider scale, the commentary also contextualizes the study of vitia and virtutes orationis in the Latin grammatical tradition.
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-615-00459-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum15.09.2023
Reihen-Nr.VI.15
Seiten570 Seiten
SpracheItalienisch
Gewicht832 g
Artikel-Nr.54562593
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GenreLexika/Sprachen