What Catullus Wrote: Problems in Textual Criticism, Editing and the Manuscript Tradition (The Roman World)

Kiss, D.

ISBN 10: 1914535731 / ISBN 13: 9781914535734

Published by Classical Press of Wales, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Catullus Wrote: Problems in Textual Criticism, Editing and the Manuscript Tradition (The Roman World)
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1914535731
• ISBN 13: 9781914535734
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The poems of Catullus barely managed to survive the Middle Ages. All surviving copies of the collection derive from an extremely corrupt manuscript, and scholars have been working since the Renaissance to reconstruct the original text. This volume aims to contribute to this effort. The authors represent different generations of scholarship and of academic tradition. They here study aspects of the manuscript tradition of the poems and their editorial history as well as contributing directly to the reconstruction of the text. The volume aims to set an example of a collaborative approach to textual criticism, in which significant choices are based not on the judgement of a single authoritative editor, but on the outcome of debate between scholars who represent a broad range of viewpoints.

About the Author

Daniel Kiss, while Fellow and Junior Member of the Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, convened the conference of 2011 which gave rise to this book. He published What Catullus Wrote while holding an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University College Dublin, and is currently Associate Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona. His publications include articles and book chapters on Catullus and other Greek, Roman and Neolatin authors as well as Catullus Online, a pioneering online critical edition of the poems of Catullus with a repertory of conjectures. He is currently preparing a descriptive catalogue of the surviving manuscripts of the poems of Catullus.