°Iphigenia at Aulis
Just wondering - has anyone read Sean Alexander Gurd’s Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology? A rather glowing review at Symploke, and of some interest to me in reading Lucretius, considerations of the mos maiorum and the like … not to mention the current cylon preoccupation and all. An excerpt from the review
The texts of Homer, Plato, and Sophocles, or of Horace, Vergil, and Cicero, according to Gurd, come down to us not through an unbroken chain of transmission, in which the humble textual critic is but the amanuensis of immortality, but they are produced instead in a kind of differential flux by strange Cyclopean “cyborgs” laboring in the mines of tradition. […] “The textual critic is not the agent of tradition but its saboteur.”
