Fragmentary texts play a central role in Classics. Their study poses a stimulating challenge to
scholars and readers while its methods and principles far from being rigidly immutable
invite constant reflection on its methods approaches and goals. By focusing on some of the
most relevant issues that fragmentologists have to face this book contributes to the ongoing
and lively debate on the study of fragmentary texts.This volume contains an extensive
theoretical introduction on the study of textual fragments followed by eight essays on a wide
variety of topics relevant to the study of fragmentary texts across literary genres. The
chapters range from archaic Greek epics (the Hesiodic corpus) to late-antique grammarian Nonius
Marcellus as a source of fragments of Republican literature. All contributions share a nuanced
critical attention to the main methodological implications of the study of fragmentary texts
and mutually contribute to highlighting the field's common specificities and limitations both
in theory and in editorial practice.The book offers a representative spectrum of
fragmentological issues providing all readers with an interest in Classics with an up-to-date
methodologically aware approach to the field.
