Scribes and Scholars

by N. G. (emeritus Fellow And Tutor In Classics Wilson

Buy used book

Mint Not in stock 535 SEK
Fair Not in stock 450 SEK
Poor Not in stock 371 SEK
Peer-to-peer Fri frakt fr. 380 SEK

Buy new book

New book 656 SEK

Fakta

Publisher	Oxford University Press
Language	English
Book type	Paperback
Utgiven	2013-12-05
Pages	336
ISBN	9780199686339
Kategori(er)

Add to cart

Description

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be produced by hand and were subject to the hazards of fire, flood, and war. This book explains how the texts survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to spend the necessary effort to preserve them for future generations. In the second edition a section of notes was included, and a new chapter was added to deal with some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance. In the third edition (1991), the authors responded to the urgent need to take account of the very large number of discoveries in this rapidly advancing field of knowledge by substantially revising or enlarging certain sections. The last two decades have seen further advances, and this revised edition is designed to take account of them.

So far, we have reused

books.

Sweden's friendliest and environmental friendliest bookshop with the lowest priced textbooks.

This is our ambition, and we do what it takes to get there. We are here to help students to save and earn money on their textbooks while we at the same time save the environment. We were started in 2005 by two students and have since strived to constantly make it easier to buy and sell used textbooks for as many as possible.

Opening Hours