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This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some Greek and Latin literary texts. All Greek and Latin passages included are literally translated and commented step by step. Advanced students and scholars are offered an orderly sequence of 'cruces' healed by great...

In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxically represents a true act of artistic originality. In the second chapter, the author reconstructs the presuppositions of a method and explores at the same time its limitations.

At the heart of his interpretation, Conte reveals the technique of the "hidden author" that...

In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides the reader in a fascinating journey in the history of transmission and interpretation of Georgics and Aeneidand shows how lively textual criticism can be.

This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors....

Eine neue kritische Edition der Aeneis erfordert ein systematisches und zuverlassiges Durchdenken des Textes, jedoch auch eine ausreichende und moglichst vollstandige Darbietung der handschriftlichen Uberlieferung.
Hierfur wurden nicht nur die sieben spatantiken codices erneut durchgesehen, sondern die recensio wurde erweitert durch den Ruckgriff auf Zeugnisse aus der karolingischen Zeit, die die fruheren Editoren nur teilweise mit herangezogen haben. Zu diesem Zweck wurden acht bisher vollig unerforschte Testimonien kollationiert. Auf diese Weise steht dem...