Quintus Curtius Rufus and Dictys Cretensis

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Titel
Quintus Curtius Rufus and Dictys Cretensis
verantwortlich
Oakley, S. P. (VerfasserIn)
Schriftenreihe
Studies in the transmission of Latin texts / S.P. Oakley ; Volume 1
Ausgabe
First edition
veröffentlicht
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Teil von
Oakley, S. P.: Studies in the transmission of Latin texts. ; Volume 1
Erscheint auch als
Oakley, S. P. (Stephen P.), Studies in the transmission of Latin texts, Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020
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Zusammenfassung
"This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably in the first century AD, and the translation into Latin by Lucius Septimius of the spoof history of the Trojan War, allegedly written at the time of that war by a certain Dictys Cretensis. Drawing on in excess of 200 witnesses, the analysis reveals how the text of Curtius in all our extant manuscripts descends from one damaged copy that survived from the Roman Empire into the Middle Ages, and how the text of Dictys survived in two such copies. It demonstrates that clear and decisive results can be achieved by application of the so-called stemmatic method, and how the application of those results will lead to several improvements to our standard text of Dictys. As well as determining which manuscripts future editors should use in editing these texts and examining them in detail, it also offers equally full discussion of those which will not be needed, establishing many localizations and derivations. The result is a large body of material that will help deepen our knowledge of the transmission of classical Latin texts, especially in the Renaissance, as well as our knowledge of scribal practice and of techniques that can be deployed in the genealogical study of manuscripts and incunables"--
Umfang
xxvii, 503 Seiten; Illustrationen
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
Curtius Rufus, Quintus > Dictys > Textgeschichte
BK-Notation
18.45 Klassische lateinische Literatur
17.94 Literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen, Rezeption
DDC-Notation
870.9/001
ISBN
9780198848721
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198848721.001.0001