Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism

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Cambridge University Press, 3 mar 2016 - 192 pagine
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.
 

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Textual criticism in a postheroic age
18
The rhetoric of textual criticismtextual criticism as rhetoric
30
recension
49
conjecture
65
interpolation collaboration
85
the case of Propertius
105
the critical edition and its discontents
124
problems and prospects
145
Reading a critical apparatus
157
Bibliography
170
General index
182
Index of scholars
189
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