Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception

by Fabio Stok, R Alden Smith, Jeffrey M Hunt, et al.

Winner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018

Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in perhaps the eighth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147731301X
• ISBN13: 9781477313015
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"