Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
Product Description
Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the editorial process is examined, from gathering and evaluating manuscript evidence to constructing the text and critical apparatus, with particular attention given to areas of dispute, such as the role of conjecture. The importance of subjective factors at every point is highlighted. An Appendix offers practical guidance in reading a critical apparatus. The discussion is framed in a way that is accessible to non-specialists, with all Latin texts translated. The book will be useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing.
Technical Specifications
You might also like
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature
Longus: Daphnis and Chloe (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique (Teubner Studienbuecher Philologie)
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (English and Greek Edition)
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Latin) (Latin and English Edition)
Ancient Greek scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, from their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period