Silvae

ISBN-13: 9780198146834 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 198 str.

Courtney

Opis

The Silvae of Statius have been preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript that has long been considered corrupt. In this careful, readable text, Courtney takes the view, held by Klotz alone among editors but strongly supported by recent discoveries of new material, that this manuscript was identical to that seen by Politician. The difficulties are compounded by the author's mannerist style, which most modern editors have often misinterpreted as a defense for corrupt readings. For this text Courtney has surveyed the scholarly literature on the Silvae in its entirety, and has often returned to the judgments of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Latinists in an effort to produce a readable text that does not ignore any difficulties.

Recenzje

'The apparatus is of superior quality in several respects. C. appears to have checked all references in earlier apparatuses and combined this with his own vast knowledge. This results in exact references for almost all humanist conjectures, which must earn C. the eternal gratitude of scholars freed from undertaking a difficult search for a conjecture by Lipsius or Salmasius. It is abundantly clear that the text, like everything else in this book, is a product of long thought, vast knowledge and attention to every detail ... important edition.' Harm-Jan van Dam, Mnemosyne, Vol. XLVII, Fasc. 3 (1994)

Spis treści

Praefatio (Preface); Index Librorum et Commentationum plus semel in apparatu laudatarum (Index of books and commentaries mentioned more than once in the apparatus); Sigla (symbols); Index Carminum (List of poems); Silvae (text); Libri Quinque (Books I-V); Index Nominum (Index of names)