Epitome Abréger les textes antiques

• Autres auteurs: Boehm, Isabelle (Éditeur intellectuel), Vallat, Daniel (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Publié: Lyon MOM Éditions 2020
• Collection: Littérature & Linguistique
• Sujets: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; summary; epitome; abstract; paraphrase; poetry; school litterature; medicine; astronomy
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The use of abbreviated versions of literary works from all fields of knowledge, from botany to the whole work of a historian such as Livy, was extremely common in Antiquity. These digests had various forms, ranging from "summary" (periochae) to the selection of abstracts (epitome), and pas...