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A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri
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English
Published/Copyright:
1998
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This book addresses the problems surrounding Cicero's Academici Libri, including why the work exists in two different editions, why and when the work became fragmentary, and how it managed to survive. It achieves this by tracing the history and influence of the work from Antiquity to the present day.
The main part of the book studies the manuscript tradition of the work. All extant manuscripts are fully described and their textual relationships are established. Historical information is assessed in order to show the part which manuscripts played in intellectual life, conclusions are reached on the archetype of the work and a full stemma of the tradition is built.
The book contains a wealth of bibliographical information and will serve as a base for further study in the transmission of Cicero's works.
The main part of the book studies the manuscript tradition of the work. All extant manuscripts are fully described and their textual relationships are established. Historical information is assessed in order to show the part which manuscripts played in intellectual life, conclusions are reached on the archetype of the work and a full stemma of the tradition is built.
The book contains a wealth of bibliographical information and will serve as a base for further study in the transmission of Cicero's works.
Author / Editor information
Terence J. Hunt, MA (1967) in Classics, University of Exeter, and (1975) in Linguistics, Princeton University, works in Information Technology. He has also established the text for the Les Belles Lettres edition of the Academicus primus.
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eBook published on:
July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004351493
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Main content:
344
eBook ISBN:
9789004351493
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in the classical tradition, the transmission of the philosophical works of Cicero, the history of scholarship, the work of humanist scholars and their interrelationships, and the history of printed editions.
