[b-greek] Re: L. Berkowitz- Canon of Greek Authors

From: Daniel Riaņo (danielrr@retemail.es)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 14:04:43 EST


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<blockquote type="cite" cite>TITLE: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of
Greek Authors and Works</blockquote>
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Could one of the TLG users help me out with this? Is this a useful
book even<br>
if you do NOT have a license to TLG? It is being remaindered and is
floating</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>around at the usual places that dump
remainders (e.g., HalfPrice books).</blockquote>
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<div><x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </x-tab>It is,
definitely, a useful book, even if you don't have access to the TLG
(but you'll be a merrier man if you do have such access to it). Better
ask for the last edition.<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </x-tab>The book is what it says: a
canon of the works used for the TLG. On its turn, the TLG, which is
one of the most formidable tools for scholars in the field of Classics
today, is not exactly what the name says, since is not a thesaurus,
but a text database of Greek literary texts up to the Byzantine times,
almost exhaustive for texts prior to c. V p.C.n.<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </x-tab>Since the Canon contains
an inventory of most of the authors and works of the classical
literature, with descriptions of the dates, editions used, number of
words of every work, etc, the book is an invaluable source of factual
information and will be very helpful to check any doubt you may have
concerning any such matters (the Canon was done with an impressive
philological acribia).<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </x-tab>The main caveat is
the fact that the editions are not always the best edition available
at the time of editing the Canon. If you are looking for an
authoritative and also exhaustive list of the editions of Greek texts,
I'd recommend you the DGE lists (which are available in print in vols
III and ff. of the DGE, and via Internet at ) although I am not
neutral in this point (I work for the DGE) and, true, there are some
cases where (due to reasons too bore to explain here) the best edition
is, arguably, that of the last volume of the Canon, and not the one
used by the DGE. The Canon also gives far more editorial information
on the editions used then the DGE lists, which are almost as succinct
as those of the LSJ in that respect. The DGE lists, on the other hand,
gives you the common abbreviations for authors and works (some day
I'll write down the differences between both lists: probably the best
things is to have both.)</div>
<div><x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </x-tab>If you
have the TLG CD ROM, you don't have to buy the printed version of the
canon: it comes within the CD as an RTF file, so that you can export
it (or parts of it, depending on the kind of license you have) with
your search program and keep the formatted file in your computer disk.
See the specimen infra (sorry for the formatted text, but I'd like to
be fair to the real appearance of the text)</div>
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<div><br></div>
<div>especimen of the first entry for the Canon:</div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">0001<br>
<b>APOLLONIUS RHODIUS</b> Epic.<br>
(3 B.C.: Alexandrinus, Rhodius)<br>
Scholia et vitae: Cf.<i> SCHOLIA IN APOLLONIUM RHODIUM</i> (5012).<br>
1 1<br>
0001 001<br>
<b>Argonautica</b>, ed. H. Fraenkel,<i> Apollonii Rhodii
Argonautica</i>.<br>
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961 (repr. 1970 (1st edn. corr.)):
1-242.<br>
(Cod: 39,090: Epic.)<br>
2 1<br>
0001 002<br>
<b>Fragmenta</b>, ed. J.U. Powell,<i> Collectanea Alexandrina</i>.
Oxford:<br>
Clarendon Press, 1925 (repr. 1970): 4-8.<br>
frr. 1-2, 5, 7-10, 12-13.<br>
5<br>
(Q: 243: Epic., Epigr.)<br>
3 1<br>
0001 003<br>
<b>Epigramma</b>,<i> AG</i><b> 11</b>.275.<br>
Dup. 0001 002 (<i>CA</i>, p. 8, fr. 13).<br>
(Q: 16: Epigr.)</font></div>

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
Daniel Riaņo Rufilanchas<br>
Madrid, Espaņa</div>

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