Silvae

Name: Silvae
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ISBN: 9780198146834

ISBN-10: 0198146833

ISBN-13: 9780198146834

Edition: 1990

Authors: Statius, E. Courtney

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The Silvae of Statius have been preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript that has long been considered corrupt. In this careful, readable text, Courtney takes the view, held by Klotz alone among editors but strongly supported by recent discoveries of new material, that this manuscript was identical to that seen by Politician. The difficulties are compounded by the author's mannerist style, which most modern editors have often misinterpreted as a defense for corrupt readings. For this text Courtney has surveyed the scholarly literature on the Silvae in its entirety, and has often returned to the judgments of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Latinists in an effort to produce a…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/5/1990
Pages: 200
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.60" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Praefatio (Preface)


Index Librorum et Commentationum plus semel in apparatu laudatarum (Index of books and commentaries mentioned more than once in the apparatus


Sigla (symbols


Index Carminum (List of poems


Silvae (text


Libri Quinque (Books I-V


Index Nominum (Index of names)