Section outline

      • 9/1

        • • Aulus Gellius, John C. Rolfe (trans.), Attic Nights, 6.13, 58-61. File PDF

          Read the English beginning at number 13 ("Whom Marcus Cato calls classici or “belonging to a class,” and whom infia clctssem or “below class.”)"

          Some discussion questions:

          • What do you think a classical text is?
          • What is a classical text according to Gellius?
          • What is an “archive”? Who decides what goes into an archive and what doesn’t?
          • What is “transmission”? How do we get the texts we have?
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      • 9/3

        • 9/3 QCQ Forum
        • • Charles Martindale “Introduction,” in Redeeming the Text (1993), 1-10. File PDF

          Things to grab from Martindale:

          1. What does it mean to take a positivist approach to history

           

          2. Is the past recoverable, according to Martindale? Yes? No? Both? Why?

           

          3. What are some critiques of canonicity, according to Martindale?

           

          4. Is Martindale pro or contra having a canon?

           

          5. Can you detect what the difference is between a subjectivist and objectivist approach to meaning? (pp. 29-32). Try to parse them out.
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