''Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici'' (often abbreviated to ''MD''; "Materials and discussions for the analysis of classical texts") is an Italian periodical within the realm of
classical philology
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
founded in 1978.
The periodical serves as a forum for exchange on different methodological approaches to ancient literature confronting historical-philological method and modern literary theory and investigating the language of culture as well as forms and techniques of literary communication.
''MD'' was founded by a group of scholars around the editor
Gian Biagio Conte in Pisa in 1978. The editor is helped by an international scientific advisory board, to which belong:
Alessandro Barchiesi
Alessandro Barchiesi (born 1955) is an Italian classicist. A specialist on Latin poetry, he is best known for his work on Horace, Vergil and Ovid. Having spent the majority of his career in Italy and the United States, he has served as a professo ...
,
Maurizio Bettini
Maurizio Bettini (born 24 July 1947) is an Italian philologist, anthropologist and novelist. He is a professor of classical philology at the University of Siena and director of Siena's Centre for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World.
B ...
,
Maria Grazia Bonnanno,
Mario Citroni,
Marco Fantuzzi,
R. Elaine Fantham,
Rolando Ferri,
Philip Hardie
Philip Russell Hardie, FBA (born 13 July 1952) is a specialist in Latin literature at the University of Cambridge. He has written especially on Virgil, Ovid, and Lucretius, and on the influence of these writers on the literature, art, and ideolo ...
,
,
Mario Labate,
Glenn W. Most
Glenn Warren Most (born June 12, 1952 in Miami) is an American classicist and comparatist originating from the US, but also working in Germany and Italy.
Most studied classics at Harvard from 1968 on and received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Clas ...
,
Michael D. Reeve,
Gianpiero Rosati,
Luigi Enrico Rossi
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,
Richard J. Tarrant. Publications are
peer-reviewed
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.
The periodical appears twice a year at Fabrizio Serra editore in Pisa (ISSN 0392-6338). From issue 49, 2002 onwards, it also appears in electronic guise (ISSN elettronico 1724-1693). In 2009, a volume of indices was published for volumes 1, 1978 to 60, 2008.
The periodical is accompanied by a book series ''Biblioteca di ‘Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici’'' edited by Maurizio Bettini and Gian Biagio Conte. It accepts philological and critical monographs which may vary in their approach to ancient literature, but are supposed to give a problematized framework of the analysis of their given text and to foster the development of critical instruments. So far, 20 volumes have been published.
External links
* ''MD'' online version at Fabrizio Serra editore (for registered users), with tables of content for issues 38, 1997 to 62, 200
* ''MD'' online version at Casalini libr
* (it) Advertisement of the 2009 index volume for volumes ''MD'' 1, 1978–2008, 6
* ''Biblioteca di MD'' at Fabrizio Serra editore, list of title
* (de) ''MD'' at ''Propylaeum - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften'
Classics journals
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