Hellenistic Scholarship

Almost fifty years after Rudolf Pfeiffer’s epoch-making “History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age’ (Oxford 1968), and following a lasting and lively season of critical study on ancient Greek philology, up-to-date surveys are needed, in order to account for new answers to old problems as well as to appraise further issues more recently raised by specialist debate.
This chapter is a contribution to satisfy that need. An outline of trends and personalities of ancient Greek scholarship intertwines with the presentation of several historiographic and methodological problems currently under discussion, in the light of a very extensive and updated bibliography.