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textualcriticism1 CONSTRUCTTextual criticismMAAS · CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

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Classical philology

the discipline of reconstructing the original wording of a text from its surviving copies by comparing them and correcting errors.

In classical philology, textual criticism refers to the discipline of reconstructing the original wording of a text from its surviving copies by comparing them and correcting errors. This meaning comes from Maas (1927/1958) in Textual criticism.[1]

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  1. Maas, P. (1958). Textual criticism (B. Flower, Trans.). Clarendon Press. (Original work published 1927) ISBN 9780198143185

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