Thursday, April 13, 2023
Scholarly Controversies
Ronald Syme, "Tigranocerta. A Problem Misconceived," in his Roman Papers, IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 245-251 (at 245):
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Erudite controversies can go on for a long time. Repetition or fatigue is no bar. Of some, notably in sacred history, there never was a solution.Id. (at 246):
Hence the prolonged controversy, the echo and the annoyance of which is not yet mute. It serves no profit to retail opinions and arguments, to catalogue verdicts or even recantations.Id. (at 247):
Manifold harm accrues when passages are culled from a large work without estimating the sources, structure, and habits of the author—often a compiler.
