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Language, truth, and illogic in the writings of Varro.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Language, truth, and illogic in the writings of Varro./
Author:	McAlhany, Joseph Carlisle.
Description:	303 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1242.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3088384

Language, truth, and illogic in the writings of Varro.
McAlhany, Joseph Carlisle.

Language, truth, and illogic in the writings of Varro. - 303 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1242.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2003.

Varro has long been considered as the most learned man Rome ever produced, yet his extant writings often provoke bewilderment rather than admiration. This dissertation undertakes a study of three of Varro's larger works---the Antiquitates rerum divinarum, the De lingua Latina, and the De re rustica---and, utilizing material from his entire corpus, attempts a reexamination of these works not simply as encyclopedic accumulations of antiquarian lore, but as self-conscious productions which serve to comment on what scholarly activity is and what it ought to be.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Language, truth, and illogic in the writings of Varro.
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520 $a Varro has long been considered as the most learned man Rome ever produced, yet his extant writings often provoke bewilderment rather than admiration. This dissertation undertakes a study of three of Varro's larger works---the Antiquitates rerum divinarum, the De lingua Latina, and the De re rustica---and, utilizing material from his entire corpus, attempts a reexamination of these works not simply as encyclopedic accumulations of antiquarian lore, but as self-conscious productions which serve to comment on what scholarly activity is and what it ought to be.
520 $a Scholarship on Varro has long labored under various preconceived notions about Roman scholars and their methods, and though a rather plausible, and at times convincing, portrait results from such research, many of the more puzzling aspects of Varro's work have eluded explanation. Unlike treatments which categorize Varro as "grammarian" or "antiquarian," this dissertation attempts not to forget the Varro who wrote 150 books of Menippean Satires and was capable of great literary sophistication. The first chapter demonstrates how previous research on Varro, burdened by the preconceptions about Roman scholarship as well as biographical assumptions, has led to an overly narrow reading of his texts. Chapter 2 offers an interpretation of the Antiquitates rerum divinarum based on its affinities to annalistic forms, and shows how Varro has designed his work to become both a lasting monument of tradition and a self-conscious model of Roman scholarship. In chapter 3, the De lingua Latina is read in light of Varro's struggles with the conflicting demands of philosophical "truth" and the authority of tradition, a continuation of the issues underlying the Antiquitates but subject{09}QS to greater complexity. Finally, chapter 4 presents the De re rustica as Varro's self-reflexive and satiric commentary on a life of otium and scholarship. The result is a portrait of Varro different from the one that has predominated in scholarship up to now; though not imbued with an greater claim to truth, it is of equal or even greater plausibility, and offers a Varro who is perhaps more deserving of the high praise lavished upon him in antiquity.
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