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Chapter 2 - Canon in Practice

The Polis of Letters

from Part I - Canon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2020

Reviel Netz
Reviel Netz
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Stanford University, California
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In the preceding chapter we established that the canon was real. In this chapter I try to understand what this meant in practice. What was it that an ancient audience possessed when it was in possession of its canon? And how and when was this canon formed? Two questions: one structural, the other historical. I study these two questions in order, in sections 2.2 and 2.3, respectively.

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Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture , pp. 96 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Canon in Practice
  • Reviel Netz, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
  • Online publication: 10 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108686945.003
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  • Reviel Netz, Stanford University, California
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  • Canon in Practice
  • Reviel Netz, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
  • Online publication: 10 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108686945.003
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