The author responds to Professor Kottow's criticisms, explaining numerous errors and misconceptions.

Antiquarian interest apart, the value of the book for students of ancient medicine ultimately depends on the quality of Caius' textual criticism. As far as the modern editor is concerned, this value is not great. Caius' knowledge of Greek was not particularly sensitive (certainly he was not as good as Cornarius). Nutton is realistic about this throughout, yet he shows a considerable amount of c...

Antiquarian interest apart, the value of the book for students of ancient medicine ultimately depends on the quality of Caius' textual criticism. As far as the modern editor is concerned, this value is not great. Caius' knowledge of Greek was not particularly sensitive (certainly he was not as good as Cornarius). Nutton is realistic about this throughout, yet he shows a considerable amount of c...

The study analyses the critique of Socratic philosophers in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists. main goal is to assess its overall quality, argumentative structure, historical relevance and interpretative plausibility. first part briefly outlines characteristics features anti-philosophical literature antiquity. second examines Athenaeus' methods techniques textual criticism. In following parts study, we...

Without analogizing too neatly, the motivating premise of this book is that early literary critics stood at a crossroads similar to the one that confronts literary scholars today. Then, as now, the material basis for critical judgment was shifting. Where we face the rise of digital media and online publishing, early critics wrote against the background of a rapidly changing landscape of books. ...

This paper aims to analyse both the refined devices of literary contamination and textual techniques that permeate Teacher Orators by Lucian Samosata, a pamphlet which attacks lack moderation certain fashionable members Second Sophistic. Besides evaluating Lucian’s criticism in an impartial way, this offers analysis relationship among dialogue itself other genres, such as theatre contemporary S...

The rise of performance criticism prompts questions about its relationship to other disciplines, most notably narrative criticism. While critics traditionally focus solely on the textual elements within their cultural context, adopt a broader understanding term “text”, encompassing not only context but also performative aspects, such as setting for public reading, involvement skilled performer,...

Over the history of mankind, textual records change. Sometimes due to mistakes during transcription, sometimes on purpose, as a way to rewrite facts and reinterpret history. There are several classical cases, such as the logarithmic tables, and the transmission of antique and medieval scholarship. Today, text documents are largely edited and redistributed on the Web. Articles on news portals an...

BACKGROUND As suggested by Shook and Giordano, understanding and therefore addressing the urgent international governance issues around globalizing bio-medical/technology research and applications is limited by the perception of the underlying science. METHODS A philosophical methodology is used, based on novel and classical philosophical reflection upon existent literature, clinical wisdoms ...