首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The history of the transmission of ancient Roman texts prior to invention of the printing press is reconstructed from evidence b
The history of the transmission of ancient Roman texts prior to invention of the printing press is reconstructed from evidence b
admin
2018-07-04
26
问题
The history of the transmission of ancient Roman texts prior to invention of the printing press is reconstructed from evidence both internal and external to the text themselves. Internal evidence is used to reconstruct the relationship of the surviving manuscripts of a Roman text to one another, as represented in a modern stemma codicum: a diagram depicting the genealogical relationship of surviving manuscripts and those the stemma’s editor believes existed at one time. Stemmata are scholars’ only road maps to textual connections based on internal evidence, but they may paint a distorted picture of reality because they diagram the relationships of only those manuscripts known or inferred today. If surviving copies are few, the stemma perforce brings into proximity manuscripts that were widely separated in time and place of origin. Conversely, the stemma can also bestow a semblance of separation on manuscripts written within a few months of one another or even in the same room.
One type of external evidence that may shed light on the transmission of Roman texts is the availability of a work in the Middle Ages, when many classical texts were circulated. Too often, though, too much is inferred about a particular work’s circulation in the Middle Ages from the number of manuscripts surviving today. When a work survives in a single manuscripts copy, editors call the manuscript, rather glamorously, the “lone survivor”-- implying that all its (presumably rare) companions were destroyed sometime early in the Middle Ages by pillaging barbarians. It is equally possible that the work survived far into the Middle Ages in numerous copies in monastic libraries but went unnoticed due to lack of interest. The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century.
Quotations from a Roman text by a medieval author are another category of external evidence. But does the appearance of a rare word or grammatical construction-- or even a short passage-- really indicate a medieval author’s firsthand knowledge of this or that ancient work, or does such usage instead derive from some intermediate source, such as a grammar book or a popular style manual? Medieval authors do quote extensively from ancient authors, while such quotations provide some evidence of the work’s medieval circulation, as well as define its evolving fortunes and the various uses to which it was put, they may be far less useful in reconstructing the text of an ancient work.
Much as scholars want to look for overall patterns and formulate useful generalizations, the transmission of each text is a different story and each manuscript’s history is unique. Scholars must be careful not to draw conclusions that go beyond what evidence can support.
Choose the sentence in the first paragraph that suggests that scholars might be led to underestimate the extent of the connection between certain manuscripts.
选项
答案
Conversely, the stemma can also bestow a semblance of separation on manuscripts written within a few months of one another or even in the same room.
解析
所谓低估,指的是“明明有关系,结果学者认为没关系”,因此定位到第五句。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/eeLYFFFM
本试题收录于:
GRE VERBAL题库GRE分类
0
GRE VERBAL
GRE
相关试题推荐
Howmanyintegersbetween100and150,inclusive,canbeevenlydividedbyneither3nor5?
Acertainonlineformrequiresa2-digitcodeforthedayofthemonthtobeenteredintooneofitsfieldssuchas04forthe4
Theprimarypurposeofthepassageisto______Theauthorusestheadjective“simple”inline5mostprobablytoemphasizethat
Thepassagesuggeststhatalackofmodernsanitationwouldmakewhichofthefollowingmostlikelytooccur?Whichofthefoll
Itcanbeinferredfromthepassagethataccidental-deathdamageawardsinAmericaduringthenineteenthcenturytendedtobeba
WhenBradofferedhisoldwoodendeskatagaragesale,nooneboughtit,eventhoughheoffereditforonly$10.Whenheoffere
Somespeciesofdolphinsfindtheirpreybyecholocation;theyemitclickingsoundsandlistenforechoesreturningfromdistant
AsHurricaneHugoapproachedtheAtlanticcoast,itincreaseddramaticallyinstrength,becomingthetenthmostintensehurrican
Johnwishedtobecomea(n)______becausehewasinterestedinlearningaboutancientcultures.
随机试题
设f(x,y)是连续函数,则累次积分f(x,y)dx=()
中西方的英雄文化①英雄主义在人类历史上由来已久,它实际上已经成为一种能够反映东西方基本意识形态的文化现象。②中国的英雄史观着重于守卫国土,维护政权;而西方的英雄史观着重于塑造人格,创造历史。但是两者的共同点就是英雄的理念首先是创立具有当
行胆囊造影患者,检查前一日晚餐进食()。
急性脓胸最常继发于
土地登记的空间分析功能是诸如地籍管理信息系统此类GIS系统所特有的功能,其结果是原来的要素被(),然后生成新的要素。
以下各项中,()是海关对被稽查人实施稽查所涉及的进出口活动。
期货投资者保障基金产生的利息以及运用所产生的各种收益等孽息归属( )。
资料:(1)单位产品标准成本:本企业该产品正常生产能力为1000小时,制造费用均按人工工时分配。(2)本月实际产量20件,实际耗用材料900千克,实际人工工时950小时,实际成本如下:要求:(1)填写标准成本卡中用字母表示的数据。(2)计
《唐律疏议.名例》:“诸断罪而无正条,其应出罪者,则举重以明轻;其应入罪者,则举轻以明重”。请运用中国法制吏的知识和理论,分析上述文字并回答下列问题:(1)上述所引唐律条文体现了唐朝法律的何种适用原则?(2)试结合引文材料具体
A、Beingbadlyhitbytheglobalfinancialcrisis.B、Beinglackinginvaluedcustomers.C、Beingimpossibletomakeaprofit.D、Be
最新回复
(
0
)