The origin of the concept of a canon and its application to the Greek and Latin classics

Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 105-116

  Kennedy, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 85071802755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203775011-15     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Gregory Nagy, “Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry,” in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism I: Classical Criticism, ed. George A. Kennedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 44-46.
2. George A. Kennedy, Comparative Rhetoric (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 146, 150, 182, 184-85, and 220.
3. Rudolf Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), 203-8.
4. Rudolf Pfeiffer, “Classics and Canons,�? South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (1990): 217-25
5. Rudolf Pfeiffer, The Politics of Liberal Education, ed. Darryl Gless and Barbara H. Johnson (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992), 223-31.
6. Rudolf Pfeiffer, “Historia Critica Oratorum Graecorum,�? often reprinted; see Ruhnken’s Opuscula I, 2 (1823), p. 386
7. L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974).
8. George A. Kennedy, “An Essay on Classics in America since the Yale Report,�? “Afterword�? to Meyer Reinhold’s Classica Americana: The Greek and Roman Heritage in the United States (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984), 325-51.