Cicero''s Brutus - Edition, Textual Commentary, and Study of the Transmission

This new edition of Cicero's Brutus by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text drawing on detailed stemmatic research, a new critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary which discusses a range of significant textual problems.

Sommario

• Introduction


• Part One: The Transmission of Brutus


• 1: The Cremona Fragment


• 2: A New Stemma


• 3: A Textual History of Cicero's Brutus


• Part Two: Text and Commentary


• Sigla


• BRUTUS


• Commentary


• Appendix 1: The Manuscripts and Fifteenth-Century Editions of Brutus


• Appendix 2: The Descendants of ¿ and B


• Appendix 3: The Descendants of F


• Appendix 4: Alphabetical List of Sigla

Info autore

Douglas R. Thomas completed a BA and an MPhil in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge, with an MPhil thesis on the textual tradition of Ambrose's De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis. In 2021, he completed DPhil at Trinity College, Oxford, with a thesis on the text and transmission of Cicero's Brutus.

Riassunto

This new edition of Cicero's Brutus by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text drawing on detailed stemmatic research, a new critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary which discusses a range of significant textual problems.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Douglas R. Thomas, Douglas R. (Independent Scholar) Thomas
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9780198883944
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888394-4
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts