CLA260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Philodemus, Papyrology, Mount Vesuvius
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For proposal: select 5 scholarly items, relevant to the topic. not ancient sources until you begin writing the essay. write a short annotation (250 words, brie y summarizing it, contents, main thesis, approach, and relevance to topic) Translation is interpretation. no direct correspondence between languages, complex ideas and aesthetic implications. Our translations are based upon written greek and latin text. Strong oral component in all of these accounts. lyric, speeches, historiography, all are public recitations. People giving oral speeches had notes, and then spoke o the notes, and later wrote more (an elaboration on the topic) so we have 3 di erent versions. Written works had to be copied by hand. humans aren"t machines, scribes misunderstood what they were reading so they miscopied, absent minded, willfully changes pieces too! No two copies of handwritten works are exactly the same. Uidity at point of composition and in the transmission.
