Cicero's       Brutus Edition, Textual Commentary, and Study of the Transmissi
Oxford University Press

Cicero's Brutus Edition, Textual Commentary, and Study of the Transmissi

Subjects: Literature, Classical texts
ISBN13: 9780198883944
Published: 31 Dec 2024

Format - Hardback
By Thomas, Douglas R.

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Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text, a critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary. The first part of the book presents the study of the manuscript tradition, employng the stemmatic method to establish the relationships between all 107 extant
manuscripts of Brutus, and demonstrating that the stemma has three independent branches in the first part of the text and four in the second. The study also shows that the ninth-century Cremona fragment is part of
the long-lost archetype, the Codex Laudensis, and that F, the manuscript copied by Niccolò Niccoli, is the source of the majority of the tradition. Brief descriptions are provided of the manuscripts in a catalogue. The second part of the volume presents a new edition of Brutus with critical apparatus, based on the study of the text's transmission. Each textual problem is considered afresh and careful attention is paid to historical evidence and Ciceronian style. The edition is
followed by a detailed textual commentary, which discusses a range of significant textual problems.

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