Contextualizing Hiberniam: Research Opportunities towards the Writing of a History of Irish Classical Scholarship

Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros 
(University of Athens, Greece)

Abstract: In our attempt to render Irish contribution to classical studies we may venture the written form of a philological and literary struggle to estimate the philological contribution of Ireland and its scholars in the History of Classical Scholarship; to establish equivalent standards and measures, in order to set the presuppositions of appraising the encounter between the advancement of Altertumswissenschaft in Europe, alma mater in humanities, and the achievements in both historical Hibernia and modern Ireland. Therefore, we register nine theoretical criteria efficient for the filtration of the subject under discussion, so as to elucidate their utility and application to any future handbook constructed under a similar scope.

Key words: Altertumswissenschaft, history of classical scholarship, Ireland, Hibernia, Homeric studies