A Short History of Classical Scholarship from the Sixth Century B.C. to the Present Day (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... Emendatione Temporum (1583). The publication of this work placed him at the head of all the living representatives of ancient learning. In 1590, Justus Lipsius, who had for the last twelve years been the leading professor at Leyden, applied for leave of absence, and, during that absence, became a Catholic. After some delay, Scaliger consented to fill the vacant place, and the stores of learning, that he had accumulated for thirty years as a native of France, were, for the last fifteen and a half years of his life, surrendered to the service of the Northern Netherlands. His disinclination to lecture was duly respected; all that the authorities at Leyden desired was his living and inspiring presence in that seat of Protestant learning. His laborious study of ancient chronology and history was no longer broken, as of old, by constant changes of residence, or by alarms arising from religious wars in the provinces of France. As a groundwork for the study of primitive tradition, he selected Jerome's translation of the Chrot1icle of Eusebius. From the fragments of the Eusebian text, he divined that the Chronicle, in its original form, must have consisted of two books; that the second alone, with its chronological tables, was represented in Jerome's translation, while the first had comprised extracts from the Greek authorities on the ancient history of the East. With the aid of a manuscript chronicle by a Greek monk, Georgius Syncellus, and a chronological list of all the Olympic victors down to the 249th Olympiad and other evidence, he was enabled to restore the Greek Eusebius, which he printed as part of his great Thesaurus Tcmporum (1606). His conjecture as to the character and contents of the first book of Eusebius was confirmed long afterwards by the discover...