Bøker av Sean Alexander Gurd

An overview and descriptions of the auditory commitments of ancient Greek song, drama, and acoustic theory from the time of Homer to the death of Euripides, this is the first complete study of the cultural system of sound in Greece.

How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits-and the accomplishments-of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics. Sean...