Brill's Companion to Ancient Scholarship aims at providing a reference work in the field of ancient Greek and Byzantine scholarship and grammar, thus encompassing the broad and multifaceted philological and linguistic research activity during the entire Greek Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first part of the volume offers a thorough historical overview of ancient scholarship, which covers the period from its very beginnings to the Byzantine era. The second part focuses on the disciplinary profile of ancient scholarship by investigating its main scientific topics. The third and final part presents the particular work of ancient scholars in various philological and linguistic matters, and also examines the place of scholarship and grammar from an interdisciplinary point of view, especially from their interrelation with rhetoric, philosophy, medicine and nature sciences.

• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Part 1 History
  • 1 Greek Scholarship from its Beginnings to Alexandria
  • 2 Hellenistic Scholarship
  • 3 Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity
  • 4 Scholarship in the Byzantine Empire (529–1453)
• Part 2 Disciplinary Profiles
  • 1 The Sources of our Knowledge of Ancient Scholarship
  • 2 Definitions of Grammar
  • 3 Typology of Philological Writings
  • 4 Typology of Grammatical Treatises
  • 5 Typology of Lexicographical Works
• Part 3 Between Theory and Practice
  • Section 3.1 Scholarship
    • 1 Ekdosis. A Product of the Ancient Scholarship
    • 2 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer
    • 3 Poetics and Literary Criticism in the Framework of Ancient Greek Scholarship
  • Section 3.2 Grammar
    • 1 Description of the Constituent Elements of the (Greek) Language
    • 2 Language Correctness (Hellenismos) and Its Criteria
    • 3 Syntax
    • 4 Ancient Etymology: A Tool for Thinking
    • 5 Ancient Theory of Prosody
    • 6 Orthography
  • Section 3.3 Philological and Linguistic Observations and Theories in Interdisciplinary Context
    • 1 Grammatical Theory and Rhetorical Teaching
    • 2 Philological Observations and Approaches to Language in the Philosophical Context
    • 3 Mythography
    • 4 Historiography, Ethnography, Geography
    • 5 Medicine and Exegesis
    • 6 Hellenistic Astronomers and Scholarship
    • 7 On the Interface of Philology and Science: The Case of Zoology
• Bibliography
• General Index
• Passages Index