>Hi, I´ve just subscribed to the list and I want to introduce myself. My name >is Julieta and I study Classical literature and philology in the Buenos >Aires University. >Rigth now I´m looking for some textual problems in the Aeneid, I´d be very >grateful if someone colud send me a clue... >Thanks! >Julieta. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.msn.es/intl.asp > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. >Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message >"unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You >can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
Well, if you want to start with something big, there's the problem of the authenticity of the Helen-episode in Book 2, denounced (by George Goold in a celebrated article in HSCP) and defended (most recently by Rory Egan in EMC) with equal vigor. On a smaller scale, I believe that discussions of some problems involving variant readings are to be found in J.E.G. Zetzel's "Latin Textual Criticism in Antiquity," and that there is a book by Sebastiano Timpanaro -- the name, unfortunately, escapes me -- that deals with some of them. But rest assured that the literature is substantial. Unlike most Latin authors, the problems in Virgil's text lie not so much in the manuscript tradition as in the ancient secondary tradition, with alternate readings reported in commentaries and in authors like Gellius but only occasionally represented in the ancient manuscripts, with the evidence frequently difficult to evaluate. Outside the Aeneid, one famous such example is Eclogues 4.62, where Virgil wrote either "cui non risere parentes" or "qui non risere parentes," as quoted by Quintilian (or perhaps "qui non risere parenti"). Cases like this, of course, are complicated by the fact that secondary sources also have their manuscript traditions, can be affected by knowledge of the texts quoted in them. James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
