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1st Edition

Critica Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors

By Egil Kraggerud Copyright 2020

342 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

342 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil. A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace’s Carmen IV 8 and IV 12,... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Horace

1. Epod. 1. Exemplifying Challenges in Editing Horace

2. Epod. 2. Sorting out Conjectures

3. Epod. 5. 87f. The Cruelty of Witchcraft

4. Epod. 16. 15f. How to Escape a Doomed Society

5. Carm. 1. 28. 32. A Corruption in the Archytas Ode?

6. Carm. 3. 2. 1. An Appeal to Friendly Youth

7. Carm. 3. 4. 10. The Terrified Nurse

8. Carm. 3. 6. Its Date and Function

9. An Appendix on the Text of Carm. 3. 6 exempli gratia

10. Carm. 3. 14. 11. Bentley Vindicated

11. Carm. 4. 8. 9f. rerum replacing res

12. Carm. 4. 8. A Distorted Ode

13. Carm. 4. 12. The Enigmatic Vergili

14. Carm. 4. 14. 20–24. The Misunderstood prope

15. Carm. 4. 15. 23-32. Trojan Anchises

16. Saec. 25–29. Prayer versus Fact

17. Ep. 1. 1. 78. Greedy Widows?

18. Ep. 2. 1. 45-46. Syntax to be Simplified

19. Ep. 2. 1. 132–133. The Bard as Mediator

20. Ars 65. A Late Recognition of Bentley’s Conjecture

21. Ars 120. Whose Honour?

22. Ars 254. Cruces or Emendation?

23. Ars 351-353. An Ignored Question Mark.

References I

Part II: Other Authors

1. Conjectural Emendation in three Stages: Diagnosis, Conjecture, Interpretation

2. Ennius Ann. 42 Sk. Ilia left alone

3. Ennius Ann. 220-1 Sk. The Nature of Discordia

4. Ennius Ann. 579 Sk. A Statue for the Conqueror

5. Ennius scen. 32 TrRF. The gemitus of Andromacha

6. Ennius scen. 130 TrRF. Telephus at Argos

7. Ennius Var. 17-18 V. Tears for the Poet

8. Catullus 64. 313. The Spinning Parcae

9. Catullus 67. In Search of Sense

10. Sallust Cat. 3. 5. Another Deletion?

11. Sallust Cat. 57. 4. A locus conclamatus

12. Liv. 4. 20. Iuppiter feretrius, Livy and Augustus

13. Hadrian’s Animula vagula. Diagnosis and Interpretation

References II

Part III: Vergil

1. Ecl. 3. 100. A Bull’s Skin and Bones

2. Ecl. 4. 40-63. A Baby’s Smile once more

3. G. 2. 20-22. The Art of Propagation

4. G. 2. 265-268. The Nursery for Vine Plants

5. A. 1. 377. An Instance of forte at Stake

6. A. 3. 147-152. An Epiphany and its Textual Issues

7. A. 9. 463. The Fruitfulness of a Withdrawn Charge

8. A. 11. 151-153. Pallas’ Promise to Evander

9. Additions and Second Thoughts

Author(s)

Biography

Egil Kraggerud is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on Vergil and has translated works by Vergil, Aeschylus and Euripides, among others.

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