Table of Contents

Preface; List of illustrations; Titles of certain works of reference; Abbreviations; Addenda and corrigenda; 1. Definition of 'scholar' and 'scholarship'; Book I. The Athenian Age, c.600–c.300 B.C.: 2. The study of epic poetry; 3. The study of lyric poetry; 4. The study and criticism of dramatic poetry; 5. The theory of poetry in Homer, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle; 6. The rise of rhetoric, and the study of prose; 7. The beginnings of grammar and etymology; Book II. The Alexandrian Age, c.300–1 B.C.: 8. The school of Alexandria; 9. The Stoics and the school of Pergamon; Book III. The Roman Age of Latin Scholarship, c.168 B.C.–c.530 A.D.: 10. Latin scholarship from the death of Ennius (169 B.C.) to the Augustan Age; 11. Latin scholarship from the Augustan Age to 300 A.D.; 12. Latin scholarship from 300 to 500 A.D.; 13. Latin scholarship from 500 to 530 A.D.; Book IV. The Roman Age of Greek Scholarship, c.1–c.530 A.D.: 14. Roman study of Greek between 164 B.C. and 143 A.D.; 15. Greek literary criticism in the first century of the Empire; 16. Verbal scholarship in the first century of the Empire; 17. The literary revival at the end of the first century; 18. Greek scholarship in the second century; 19. Greek scholarship in the third century; 20. Greek scholarship in the fourth century; 21. Greek scholarship from 400 to 530 A.D.; Book V. The Byzantine Age, c.530–c.1350 A.D.: 22. Byzantine scholarship from 529 to 1000 A.D.; 23. Period III 850–1350 continued; Book VI. The Middle Ages in the West c.530–c.1350 A.D.: 24. Gregory the Great; 25. Charles the Great and Alcuin; 26. The tenth century; 27. The eleventh century; 28. The twelfth century; 29. The twelfth century continued; 30. The thirteenth century; 31. The thirteenth century and after; 32. The mediaeval copyists and the classics; Index; Greek index.

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