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HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP F R OM T HE B E G I N N I NG TO T HE E ND OF T HE H E L L E N I S T IC A GE R. PFEIFFER OXFORD HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP F R OM T HE B E G I N N I NG TO T HE E ND OF T HE H E L L E N I S T IC A GE R. PFEIFFER OXFORD THIS volume is concerned with the founda tions laid by Greek poets and scholars in the last three centuries BC for the whole future of classical scholarship. It starts with a brief sur vey of the pre-Hellenistic ages in Greece and a few hints at the oriental background. Then the author makes full use of the available evidence, especially that of the papyri, to demonstrate the fresh start made by Hellenistic poets after 300 BC and to describe the essential achievements of five generations of creative scholars in Alexandria and of their epigoni down to the age of Augustus. Rudolf Pfeiffer ( 1889-1979) was Professor of Greek at Hamburg (1923) and Freiburg (1928) Universities, then Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1938 to 1951. Other publications include a complete edi tion of Callimachus. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE END OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE RUDOLF PFEIFFER OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS Oxford University Pres.1, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2. 60P Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aires ·Calcutta Cape Town Dares Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a trade mark of Oxford University Press Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ~ Oxford University Press 1')68 Special edition for Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1()98 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press. Within the UK, exceptions are allowed in respect of any fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, De.1ignsa nd Patents Act, 1()88,o r in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms and in other countries should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd., Midsomer Norton VXORI CARISSIMAE SACRVM

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