''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, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

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, Maria Grazia Bonnanno, Mario Citroni, Marco Fantuzzi, R. Elaine Fantham,

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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 ...

, Richard L. Hunter,

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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 University from 1968 on and received a B.A. Summa Cum L ...

, Michael D. Reeve,

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, Richard J. Tarrant. Publications are

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

. 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'

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