Critical Notes on Virgil

Critical Notes on Virgil
Author: Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110456052

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 Aeneid and shows how lively textual criticism can be.

Vergiliana

Vergiliana
Author: Egil Kraggerud
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315512076

In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual issues in Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid. Through these and in his Introduction, the author argues for a less conservative approach to these texts than has been fashionable among 20th century editors and commentators. This profoundly learned, engaging and valuable contribution is a critical resource for anyone working on the works of Vergil at both under- and postgraduate level, written by one of the most respected scholars in the field.

Virgil, "Aeneid" 6

Virgil,
Author: Nicholas Horsfall
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110229919

Working “in the shadow of Eduard Norden” in the author’s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall’s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators’ commentator writing with encyclopedic command of Virgilian scholarship for the most demanding reader. Volume One includes the introduction, text and translation, and bibliography, Volume Two includes the commentary, appendices, and indices.

Ope ingenii

Ope ingenii
Author: Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110312859

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 philologists so that a teaching route is granted.