R. J. Tarrant - Böcker

An Oxford Classical texts edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses has been planned for nearly a century, but earlier efforts by D. A. Slater and Franco Munari were not completed, largely because of the size and complexity of the manuscript tradition. Building on their work and that of many other scholars, R. J. Tarrant has produced a text with a broader manuscript foundation than any previous modern edition. The early fragments and oldest manuscripts have been freshly collated, and the twelfth-century manuscripts have been fully drawn on for the first time; as a result many potentially original readings that had been attributed to later manuscript sources or even to modern scholars can now be located in the mainstream of the medieval tradition. In establishing the text, Tarrant has been more generous than his immediate predecessors in adopting and recording scholarly conjectures, among them a number of emendations not previously published. In the matter of interpolated verses Tarrant has taken a more sceptical view of the transmitted text than editors of the last century; some of the lines he has bracketed had been suspected by earlier editors (especially Nicolaas Heinsius), but other proposed deletions are new. In the apparatus the editor has often noted that a rejected variant or conjecture offers a plausible alternative to the text printed, thereby calling attention to the many places where the original reading remains open to question. Offering a wealth of new information and ideas, this edition will be indispensable for all future study of Ovid's masterwork.

Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in general, and includes a detailed survey of the manuscript tradition. His commentary is the fullest yet published on a Senecan play and attempts both to interpret the text and to define the originality of Senecan drama by placing it in its proper literary context; it contains material illustrating Seneca's relationship to earlier Greek and Roman drama, Augustan poetry (Ovid's in particular), and the rhetoric of declamation. This edition will be welcomed by classical scholars and students of Latin poetry, and may also prove valuable to those interested in Seneca's influence on later European drama.

This volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, “The Significance of Tacitus’ Dialogus de oratoribus”; Wendell Clausen, “Cicero and the New Poetry”; Gregory Crane, “Three Notes on Herodas 8”; Thomas K. Hubbard, “Pegasus’ Bridle and the Poetics of Pindar’s Thirteenth Olympian”; C. P. Jones, “Suetonius in the Probus of Giorgio Valla”; Peter E. Knox, “Ovid’s Medea and the Authenticity of Heroides 12”; Norbert F. Lain, “Catullus 68.145”; Jeffrey S. Rusten, “Structure, Style, and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier’s Choice (Thuc. 2.42.4)”; Richard Seaford, “Immortality, Salvation, and the Elements”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “Tu Marcellus eris”; Friedrich Solmsen, “Aeneas Founded Rome with Odysseus”; Joseph B. Solodow, “Raucae, tua cura, palumbes: Study of a Poetic Word Order”; Richard F. Thomas, “Unwanted Mice (Arat. Phaen. 1140–1141)” and “Virgil’s Georgics and the Art of Reference”; Brent Vine, “An Umbrian-Latin Correspondence”; and Robert Wallace, “The Date of Isokrates’ Areopagitikos.”

This volume of twenty-two articles includes: Charles F. Ahern, Jr., “Daedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoria”; T. D. Barnes, “Structure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14”; Daniel R. Blickman, “Lucretius, Epicurus, and Prehistory”; John Bodel, “Missing Links: Thymatulum or Tomaculum?”; Alan Cameron, “Biondo’s Ammianus: Constantius and Hormisdas at Rome”; James J. Clauss, “The Episode of the Lycian Farmers in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”; Gregory Crane, “Creon and the “Ode to Man” in Sophocles’ Antigone”; Thomas N. Habinek, “Science and Tradition in Aeneid 6”; Edward M. Harris, “Demosthenes’ Speech against Meidias”; J. M. Hunt, “Apolloniana”; Peter E. Knox, “Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus”; Christina S. Kraus, “Liviana Minima”; Robert Mondi, “Χαοσ and the Hesiodic Cosmogony”; Charles E. Murgia, “Propertius 4.1.87–88 and the Division of 4.1”; Hayden Pelliccia, “Pindar, Nemean 7.31–36 and the Syntax of Aetiology”; William H. Race, “Climactic Elements in Pindar’s Verse”; Eckart Schütrumpf, “Traditional Elements in the Concept of Hamartia in Aristotle’s Poetics”; Charles Segal, “Poetic Immortality and the Fear of Death: The Second Proem of the De Rerum Natura”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “Albanius or Albinius? A Palinode Resung” and “More on Quintilian’s (?) Shorter Declamations”; W. S. Watt, “Notes on Seneca, Tragedies”; and Clifford Weber, “Egeria’s Norman Homeland.”

This volume of nineteen articles offers: Marianne Palmer Bonz, “The Jewish Donor Inscriptions from Aphrodisias: Are They Both Third-Century, and Who Are the Theosebeis?”; Timothy W. Boyd, “Where Ion Stood, What Ion Sang”; C. O. Brink, “Can Tacitus’ Dialogus Be Dated? Evidence and Historical Conclusions”; Robert D. Brown, “The Bed-Wetters in Lucretius 4.1026”; Joseph W. Day, “Interactive Offerings: Early Greek Dedicatory Epigrams and Ritual”; Marian Demos, “Callicles’ Quotation of Pindar in the Gorgias”; Margalit Finkelberg, “The Dialect Continuum of Ancient Greek”; Andrew Garrett and Leslie Kurke, “Pudenda Asiae Minoris”; Stephen Harrison, “Yew and Bow: Vergil Georgics 2.448”; C. P. Jones, “A Geographical Setting for the Baucis and Philemon Legend (Ovid Metamorphoses 8.611–724)”; Alan Kershaw, “En in the Senecan Dramatic Corpus”; Paul T. Keyser, “Later Authors in Nonius Marcellus and His Date”; William T. Loomis, “Entella Tablets VI (254–241 B.C.) and VII (20th cent. A.D.?)”; Alan Nussbaum, “Five Latin Verbs from Root *leik-”; Michael Peachin, “The Case of the Heiress Camilia Pia”; Alexander Sens, “A Beggarly Boxer: Theocritus Idyll 22.134”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “Comm. Pet. 10”; W. S. Watt, “Notes on Seneca De Beneficiis, De Clementia, and Dialogi”; and Shirley Werner, “On the History of the Commenta Bernensia and the Adnotationes super Lucanum.”