Aporemata.

“The present volume is the first in a series of six books which will explore historical and theoretical aspects of various scholarly practices which have played, and continue to play, an important role in the study of ancient Greece and Rome, as well, as of many other cultures. It attempts to situate this practice in a number of different, and, it hoped, mutually illuminating perspectives: historically, in terms of the development of classical scholarship since antiquity, and especially since the Renaissance; pragmatically, in the contributions of scholars who are currently actively engaged in just this type of work; theoretically, by considering issues of philosophy, literary theory, and related fields which are (or should be) raised by this practice; and comparatively, by at least beginning to ask to what extent such practices have been characteristic not only of various traditions of research into other cultures as well”. (From the Introduction of the Editor in Vol. 1 of the series Aporemata.)