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Latin Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2020

Christopher Whitton
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First up, a brace of major Teubner editions. Marcus Deufert's De rerum natura marks a significant moment in Lucretian studies. I suspect that most people, at least in the Anglosphere, are still using Cyril Bailey's venerable Oxford Classical Text (revised in 1922) for everyday reading, if not the equally antique Loeb (W. D. Rouse, 1924). In broadest outline, text-critical views haven't changed much since: a ‘closed’ tradition, in which two Carolingian manuscripts rejoicing in the workaday names Oblongus and Quadratus are prime witnesses, but often problematic ones; a mass of manuscripts from Renaissance Italy, which editors consult primarily for conjectures. But the last century has seen plenty of important work, and Deufert can report more precisely on the various corrections made in O and Q; affirm that all Italian manuscripts descend from O, and give them a stemma; pan many more humanist conjectures; wade in the muddy river (xxi) of modern interventions; and offer his own solutions to, or non liquet on, textual problems small and large. The result is a text with plenty of novelties (and many questions left open), and an edition with a very different look.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , October 2020 , pp. 260 - 270
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7 S. Heyworth, BMCRev 2010.10.03.

8 Both Elena Giusti and David Quint, for instance, in the books I wrote about last time (G&R 67.1 [2020], pp. 81–2). No sign that Conte has been thumbed by Rebecca Armstrong or Hunter Gardner (below) either.

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13 G. Clark, Augustine. Confessions Books I–IV (Cambridge, 1995). The series was inaugurated by the late lamented E. J. (Ted) Kenney († 23 December 2019) with Apuleius’ Cupid & Psyche (1990), still much used. Between the two Latin volumes came two Greek ones: Donald Russell on three orations of Dio Chrysostom (1992) and Neil Hopkinson's anthology of imperial poetry (1994).

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21 G&R 65.1 (2018), 112–13.

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