1. Concept
The term “philology” (Greek philología, “love of words/thoughts,” coined by Plato) had already become synonymous with erudition per se by the 1st century BCE, where that erudition was in the field of language and literature. A philologist (Greek philólogos) was a specialist in grammar (grammatikós) and linguistic and literary criticism (kritikós), capable of assessing the linguistic correctness of texts and…