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Latin Literature and its Transmission Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)

Latin Literature and its Transmission By Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)

Latin Literature and its Transmission by Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)


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Summary

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.

Latin Literature and its Transmission Summary

Latin Literature and its Transmission by Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)

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.

About 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 is Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.

Table of 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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NLS9781107538115
9781107538115
1107538114
Latin Literature and its Transmission by Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2020-01-16
380
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