Latin Literature and its Transmission

This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil, and there are also essays on the Renaissance reception of Virgil and on principles of editorial practice. The collection celebrates the extraordinary contribution which Michael Reeve has made and continues to make to Latin studies.

Covers topics in both the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, showing how the two broad approaches are in fact mutually supportive
Presents essays on Republican and Imperial Latin literature, as well as the reception of the classics
All significant quotations of Greek and Latin are translated

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Published: January 2020
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781107538115
Length: 380 pages
Dimensions: 215 × 140 × 18 mm
Weight: 0.45kg
Contains: 14 b/w illus. 1 table
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Contents

1. Jupiter the antiquarian: the name of Iulus (Virgil, Aeneid 1.267-8) Alessandro Barchiesi
2. Neglected and unnoticed additions in the text of three Cicero speeches (In Verrem II.5, Pro Murena, Pro Milone) D. H. Berry
3. Some problems in the text and transmission of Lucretius David Butterfield
4. On the text of the Aeneid: an editor's experience Gian Biagio Conte
5. Overlooked manuscript evidence for interpolations in Lucretius? The rubricated lines Marcus Deufert
6. Aliquid putare nugas: literary filiation, critical communities and reader-response in Catullus Monica R. Gale
7. Dogs, snakes and heroes: hybridism and polemic in Lucretius' De rerum natura Emma Gee
8. Authenticity and other textual problems in Heroides 16 Stephen Heyworth
9. Maritime Maro: Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in Renaissance Venice L. B. T. Houghton
10. Illa domus, illa mihi sedes – on the interpretation of Catullus 68 Matthew Leigh
11. Acidalius on Tacitus Simon Malloch
12. On the good ship Ingenium: Tristia 1.10 Llewelyn Morgan
13. The editio princeps of Priscian's Periegesis and its relatives S. P. Oakley
14. A new critical edition of Horace Richard Tarrant
15. The published writings of Michael Reeve.

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Alessandro Barchiesi, D. H. Berry, David Butterfield, Gian Biagio Conte, Marcus Deufert, Monica R. Gale, Emma Gee, Stephen Heyworth, L. B. T. Houghton, Matthew Leigh, Simon Malloch, Llewelyn Morgan, S. P. Oakley, Richard Tarrant

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Richard Hunter , University of Cambridge
Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College.
S. P. Oakley , University of Cambridge
S. P. Oakley is Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.

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