This paper deals with the contribution of the philologist Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812) in the following fields: 1. the diffusion of classical studies by means of the academic speech ; 2. the interpretation of social and economic facts of the ancient world, in particular slavery ; 3. the academic institutionalisation of the study of antiquity and the development of considerable scientific undertakings, such as the corpora ; 4. the development of ideas about the value and the utility of the study of antiquity as well as the necessity of using a comparative method to understand it ; 5. the science of mythology ; 6. the study of ancient texts. It stresses the decisive influence Heyne had on the following generation of classical scholars.
Christian Gottlob Heyne dans l’histoire des études classiques
Fornaro Sotera
2011
Abstract
This paper deals with the contribution of the philologist Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812) in the following fields: 1. the diffusion of classical studies by means of the academic speech ; 2. the interpretation of social and economic facts of the ancient world, in particular slavery ; 3. the academic institutionalisation of the study of antiquity and the development of considerable scientific undertakings, such as the corpora ; 4. the development of ideas about the value and the utility of the study of antiquity as well as the necessity of using a comparative method to understand it ; 5. the science of mythology ; 6. the study of ancient texts. It stresses the decisive influence Heyne had on the following generation of classical scholars.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
