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Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) By Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) by Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)


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This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae is intended to replace the 1968 Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, the indirect tradition, and the text, it proposes numerous emendations and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars' conjectures.

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) Summary

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) by Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall's own later discoveries as well as by other scholarship. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, of the indirect tradition, and of both the Latin and the Greek text, this new edition utilizes manuscript evidence unknown to previous editors, refines the standard account of relations between the earlier manuscripts, and distinguishes between readings in the later manuscripts derived from an older lost witness and those resulting from error or interpolation. All known witnesses to the indirect tradition as preserved in four florilegia have been examined, at times enabling readings less well supported by the manuscripts of the direct tradition to be restored. Above all, the approach to the transmitted text evinces a more sceptical, less trusting view than that of many recent editors: the apparatus criticus contains numerous emendations and suggestions, and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars' conjectures, yet remains more generous than Marshall's and avoids trivial details.

Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) Reviews

Did the world need a new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae just over half a century after P. K. Marshall published his Oxford Classical Text? Those who thought not are proven wrong by this magnificent edition by Leofranc Holford-Strevens ... He has produced not only the best edition of Gellius to date, but also a masterpiece of Latin textual scholarship ... His passion for the author, his deep knowledge of the text and his skill as a textual critic have helped to create a truly outstanding edition. * Daniel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

About Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)

After education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1967, MA 1970, D.Phil. 1971), Leofranc Holford-Strevens worked as a learned reader at Oxford University Press from 1971 to 1984, and thereafter as a copy-editor until his retirement in 2011 (from 2005 with the title Consultant Scholar-Editor).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter Testimonia Antiqua Praemonenda Notae Conspectus Editorum Auli Gelli Signa Codicum Praefatio Liber I Liber II Liber III Liber IV Liber V Liber VI Liber VII Liber VIII Liber IX Liber X

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NPB9780199695010
9780199695010
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Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) by Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)
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2019-11-27
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