Gelliana too is admirably compact; it offers just 165 pages of commentary on 684 pages of Latin text. Most textual problems are discussed in under a dozen lines. A consistent focus on the key issues at stake yields transparency ... The textual commentary in Gelliana is not limited to new proposals made by Holford-Strevens, but embraces a broad range of problems and points of interest. In effect, the commentary serves to explain the constitutio textus, which is no less important in a critical edition than the study of the sources.

Dániel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

He has produced not only the best edition of Gellius to date, but also a masterpiece of Latin textual scholarship ... an outstanding linguistic and stylistic sensibility enables Holford-Strevens to detect hidden problems in the text and to reopen well-known ones if the solution does not strike him as satisfactory.

Dániel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Written by Leofranc Holford-Strevens to accompany his Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, this volume presents more expansive discussions and explanations of choices of readings at various places in the text than would be possible within the narrow confines of the edition's apparatus criticus (in which all passages discussed in Gelliana are marked with an asterisk). The grounds adduced are generally grammatical in the modern sense of the word, concerning accidence, vocabulary, or syntax, but sometimes invoke palaeography, logic, or other matters of content. Previous scholars, and also translations, are frequently cited in order either to credit the person first on record as having understood the text correctly or to indicate the source of a current misinterpretation. The preliminary matter includes an extensive list, significantly expanded from that drawn up by Martin Hertz, of places where scribes have inadvertently corrupted the text through inappropriate importation of the Christian terms with which they were familiar, while a separate appendix contains corrections to and revisions of passages in the author's previously published monograph Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement (OUP 2003, corrected paperback 2005) and article 'Recht as een Palmen-Bohm and other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception' in The Worlds of Aulus Gellius (co-edited with Amiel D. Vardi, OUP 2004).
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Written to accompany the author's Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, this volume presents more expansive discussions and explanations of choices of readings at various places in the text than would be possible within the narrow confines of the edition's apparatus criticus.
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Frontmatter Prolegomena A Note on Christianisms Conventions Abbreviations Chapters Preface and Lemmata Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four Book Five Book Six Book Seven Book Eight Book Nine Book Ten Book Eleven Book Twelve Book Thirteen Book Fourteen Book Fifteen Book Sixteen Book Seventeen Book Eighteen Book Nineteen Book Twenty Appendix Endmatter Editions and Translations Cited by Originator Alone Bibliography Index
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An authoritative companion volume to the author's Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae Offers more expansive explanations of textual decisions than are accommodated by the edition's apparatus criticus Includes an extensive list of places where scribes have misread a word as a Christian term with which they were familiar, drawing attention to a known phenomenon rarely considered in detail Corrects and revises the author's previous publications on Gellius in a separate appendix, providing readers with updated scholarship
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After education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1967, MA 1970, D.Phil. 1971), Leofranc Holford-Strevens worked as a learned reader at Oxford University Press from 1971 to 1984, and thereafter as a copy-editor until his retirement in 2011 (from 2005 with the title Consultant Scholar-Editor).
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An authoritative companion volume to the author's Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae Offers more expansive explanations of textual decisions than are accommodated by the edition's apparatus criticus Includes an extensive list of places where scribes have misread a word as a Christian term with which they were familiar, drawing attention to a known phenomenon rarely considered in detail Corrects and revises the author's previous publications on Gellius in a separate appendix, providing readers with updated scholarship
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199693931
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
219 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
226

Biografisk notat

After education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1967, MA 1970, D.Phil. 1971), Leofranc Holford-Strevens worked as a learned reader at Oxford University Press from 1971 to 1984, and thereafter as a copy-editor until his retirement in 2011 (from 2005 with the title Consultant Scholar-Editor).