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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819525103321

Autore

Kaster Robert A

Titolo

Studies on the text of Macrobius' Saturnalia / / Robert A. Kaster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-01002-X

9786613010025

0-19-984253-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

American Philological Association American classical studies ; ; v. 55

Disciplina

878/.04

Soggetti

Latin literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1. The Medieval Manuscript Tradition of Macrobius' Saturnalia; Chapter 2. Macrobiana; Chapter 3. The Author as Copyist; Appendix 1. Other Manuscripts; Appendix 2. P and Other Problems; Appendix 3. Conspectus editionum; Bibliography; Index Nominum; Index Locorum; Index Codicum

Sommario/riassunto

Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia is a companion to new editions of Macrobius' encyclopedic dialogue that are to appear in the Loeb Classical Library and the Oxford Classical Texts series. The first chapter reports the results of a new survey of all the extant manuscripts of the work written before the 13th century and provides the first detailed stemma, which allows the early medieval archetype to be reconstructed more reliably than previously. Chapter 2 discusses some of the nearly 300 passages in which the new text differs from the standard edition of James Willis (Teubner 1963);