Giuseppe Giangrande

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Giuseppe Giangrande ( 1926 - June 12, 2013 ) was an Italian classical scholar .

Life

Giangrande grew up in Pisa , where he studied classical philology . He then went on to do a doctorate at King's College , Cambridge , and stayed there as a fellow (1955–1966). 1966 Giangrande Professor of Classics at Birkbeck College of the University of London . In 1987 he moved to King's College London in the same position , where he taught until his retirement in 1992.

Giangrande was extremely gifted with languages. In addition to the two ancient languages, Giangrande spoke and wrote fluently or ready for printing not only in Italian and English, but also in Spanish, German and French.

Giangrande and the Byzantinist and Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College Robert Browning gave the Classical and Byzantine monographs (AM Hakkert, Amsterdam 1973ff.) And the Museum Philologum Londiniense (AM Hakkert, Amsterdam 1975–1987; Vol. 2 contains a special Papyrological Number ), later also with his assistant Heather White , and then initially alone, later again with Heather White, the Corolla Londiniensis (JC Gieben, Amsterdam 1981–1990), of which several volumes are also in the London series published by Giangrande Studies in Classical Philology ( EJ Brill , Leiden 1981–1990) published.

Giangrande saw his chair as a Classics Research Center . Numerous postgraduate students mainly from Great Britain, Italy and Greece came as visiting students or to do their qualification theses. The publication organs founded by Giangrande served both these postgraduates and scholars from all over Europe who were networked with Giangrande.

Giangrande's ashes are buried in the family chapel in Roccasecca , Lazio .

Giangrande was married and had two children. He lived with his family in Little Hadham , Hertfordshire .

Research priorities

In his early years Giangrande first worked on the Neo-Platonist Eunapios of Sardis , of whose sophist biographies he presented a critical edition. Later he devoted himself in particular to Hellenistic and Roman literature and their arte allusiva , without losing sight of the other areas of Greek literature. Giangrandes way of working can best be characterized with the terms of microphilology and conjectural criticism. The exact observation of the historical use of language by an author (Giangrande often quotes the term in German) provides the criterion for the constitution of the text.

Fonts (selection)

Small writings and monographs

  • Scripta minora Alexandrina. AM Hakkert, Amsterdam, 4 vols., I: 1980, II: 1981, III: 1984, IV: 1985 ( Classical and Byzantine monographs , vol. 7-8. 10-11). - Reprint of Giangrande's Small Writings on Alexandrian Literature
  • L'humour des Alexandrins. AM Hakkert, Amsterdam 1975 ( Classical and Byzantine monographs , vol. 2).
  • On the usage, technique and text of Apollonios Rhodios. AM Hakkert, Amsterdam 1973 ( Classical and Byzantine monographs , vol. 1).

Text editions and translations

  • Eunapii Vitae Sophistarum. Joseph Giangrande recensuit. Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Rome 1956. - Review by Hans Gerstinger, in: Gnomon 30, 1958, pp. 105-108, (online) .
  • Plutarco, Narrazioni d'amore. Introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di Giuseppe Giangrande. M. D'Auria Editore, Naples 1991, ISBN 88-7092-079-8 .

Editorships

  • with Italo Gallo, Antonio Garzya , Mario Manfredini (eds.): Sulla tradizione manoscritta dei "Moralia" di Plutarco: Atti del Convegno salernitano del 4–5 December 1986. Pietro Laveglia Editore, Salerno 1988 (Università degli studi di Salerno, Quaderni del Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità , vol. 2).
  • with Heather White (Ed.): Corolla Londiniensis. JC Gieben, Amsterdam 1981-1990. - Review of the first volume by Herman Van Looy , in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 61, 1983, pp. 205-207, (online) ; Georges Nachtergael, in: L'Antiquité Classique 52, 1983, 357-358, (online) .
  • (Ed.): London Studies in Classical Philology. EJ Brill, Leiden 1981-1990.
  • (Ed., With Robert Browning): Museum Philologum Londiniense. AM Hakkert, Amsterdam 1975-1987. - Review by Georges Nachtergael, in: L'Antiquité Classique 54, 1985, 372–374, (online) (Volume IV – V); 57, 1988, pp. 635-636, (online) (Vol. VI-VIII); each contain a table of contents.
  • (Ed., With Robert Browning): Classical and Byzantine monographs (AM Hakkert, Amsterdam 1973ff.)

items

  • As for the text and the lengua de Eurípides. In: Habis 41, 2010, pp. 85–94, (online) (PDF).
  • Il metodo storico nella critica testuale. In: Habis 39, 2008, pp. 397-408, (online) (PDF).
  • La couronne enflammée de Médée: AP 11.411. In: Habis 37, 2006, pp. 191–192, (online) (PDF).
  • Las dos fuentes en las laminillas órficas. In: Minerva: Revista de filología clásica 9, 1995, pp. 53-56.
  • The final line in Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo. In: Habis 23, 1992, pp. 53-62, (online) (PDF).
  • On the Text of the Anacreontea. In: Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 19, 1975, pp. 177-210.
  • Theocritus and Priapus' Ears. In: Classical Quarterly 21, 1971, p. 424.
  • Sympotic Literature and Epigram. In: L'épigramme grecque. Sept exposés suivis de discussions, Vandoeuvres – Genève, 28 août – 3 septembre 1967. Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquité classique, Vandœuvres-Genève 1968 (Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, t. 14), p. 91– 177. - Review by DA Campbell, in: Classical Review 22, 1972, pp. 59-61, (online) .
  • Emendation of a Horatian corrupt. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 111, 1968, pp. 55–58, (online) (PDF).
  • Arte allusiva and Alexandrian Epic Poetry. In: Classical Quarterly 17, 1967, pp. 85-97.
  • Hellenistic conjectures. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 110, 1967, pp. 151–157, (online) (PDF).
  • Two Callimache problems. In: Hermes 94, 1966, pp. 425-429, (online) .
  • Conjectures to the Anthologia Palatina. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 106, 1963, pp. 255–263, (online) (PDF).
  • The Origin of Attic Comedy. In: Eranos 61, 1963, pp. 1-24.
  • Caratteri stilistici delle Vitae Sophistarum di Eunapio. In: Bollettino dei Classici ns fasc. 4, 1956.
  • Palinodie congetturali ed interpretazioni eunapiane. In: Bollettino dei Classici ns fasc. 4, 1956.
  • Osservazioni sopra il testo delle Vitae sophistarum di Eunapio. In: Bollettino dei Classici ns fasc. 3, 1954.

literature

  • Máximo Brioso Sánchez: Giuseppe Giangrande (1926–2013). In: Veleia 30, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Giangrande, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
DATE OF DEATH June 12th, 2013