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A Study Of Erasmus's Editions Of The Works Of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robert B. Hardy

Honors Papers

This thesis had its origins in my reading of an article by Anthony Grafton entitled, appropriately, "The Origins of Scholarship." This article, in the form of a review of Rudolf Pfeiffer's History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850, attempts to set forth the major tasks faced by historians working on the history of classical scholarship. Grafton states the primary task quite simply as follows: "We want to know not only what the early scholars thought about the studia humanitatis, but how they practiced them." This involves undertaking detailed studies of the scholarly works-editions, commentaries, philological treatises- of early classical …