L. Berkowitz- Canon of Greek Authors
Daniel Riaño
danielrr at retemail.es
Tue Jan 9 14:04:43 EST 2001
>TITLE: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works
>...
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>Could one of the TLG users help me out with this? Is this a useful book even
>if you do NOT have a license to TLG? It is being remaindered and is floating
>around at the usual places that dump remainders (e.g., HalfPrice books).
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.
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.
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).
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.)
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)
especimen of the first entry for the Canon:
0001
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS Epic.
(3 B.C.: Alexandrinus, Rhodius)
Scholia et vitae: Cf. SCHOLIA IN APOLLONIUM RHODIUM (5012).
1 1
0001 001
Argonautica, ed. H. Fraenkel, Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961 (repr. 1970 (1st edn. corr.)): 1-242.
(Cod: 39,090: Epic.)
2 1
0001 002
Fragmenta, ed. J.U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1925 (repr. 1970): 4-8.
frr. 1-2, 5, 7-10, 12-13.
5
(Q: 243: Epic., Epigr.)
3 1
0001 003
Epigramma, AG 11.275.
Dup. 0001 002 (CA, p. 8, fr. 13).
(Q: 16: Epigr.)
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Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Madrid, España
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