Monday, March 04, 2019
No Barriers
Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Edited with a Commentary by Eduard Fraenkel, Vol. I: Prolegomena, Text, Translation (1950; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), pp. 60-61:
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Nor are there here (nor, for that matter, in anything that Wilamowitz wrote) any departmental barriers. For him there was no such thing as a watertight compartment of textual criticism, another of historical grammar, another of metre, another of history of religion, another of ancient law, and so forth. No single subsection of the technique of research was allowed to get the better of the rest: they had all to be subservient and to co-operate to one purpose only, the adequate interpretation of the text in hand.
