Frases de Bruno Snell

Bruno Snell fue un filólogo clásico alemán. Es reconocido fundamentalmente por sus trabajos de edición, lexicografía e historia intelectual de Grecia. Wikipedia

✵ 18. junio 1896 – 31. octubre 1986

Bruno Snell: Frases en inglés

“Since the time of Aristarchus, the great Alexandrian scholar, it has been the rule among philologists not to base the interpretation of Homeric words on references to classical Greek, and not to allow themselves to be influenced by the usage of a later generation when investigating Homeric speech. Today we may expect even richer rewards from this rule than Aristarchus hoped to glean for himself. Let us explain Homer in no terms but his own, and our understanding of the work will be the fresher for it. Once the words are grasped with greater precision in their meaning and relevance, they will suddenly recover all their ancient splendour. The scholar too, like the restorer of an old painting, may yet in many places remove the dark coating of dust and varnish which the centuries have drawn over the picture, and thus give back to the colours their original brilliance.”

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Bruno Snell libro The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought

"classical Greek" here refers to Greek in the classical period spanning approximately the time between 5th and 4th centuries BC, i.e., in contrast to Homeric Greek from Archaic Greece.
Fuente: The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought (1953), p. 1