Latin Literature and its Transmission

List 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard Hunter (Editor), Hunter Richard (Editor), S. P. Oakley (Editor), Oakley S. P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781107538115
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53811-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Illustrations: 14 b/w illus. 1 table, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Literary theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory