[A]ncient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Ancient Writers
George Kennedy, "Classical and Christian Source Criticism," in William O. Walker, Jr., ed., The Relationships Among the Gospels: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1978), pp. 125-155 (at 126):