Critica: Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors

by Egil Kraggerud

Overview

Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil.

A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace’s Carmen IV 8 and IV 12, along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian’s Animula vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy’s text at IV 20 in connection with Cossus’s spolia opima, and on Vergil’s Aeneid 3. 147–152 and 11. 151–153. On Ennius, the author presents several new ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220–22l, and in editing Horace, he suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing a conservative and a radical approach.

Critica will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin language and literature.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000056266
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Egil Kraggerud is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on Vergil and has translated works by Vergil, Aeschylus and Euripides, among others.

Egil Kraggerud is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on Vergil and has translated works by Vergil, Aeschylus and Euripides, among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Horace 1. Epod. 1. Exemplifying Challenges in Editing Horace 2. Epod. 2. Sorting out Conjectures 3. Epod. 5. 87f. The Cruelty of Witchcraft 4. Epod. 16. 15f. How to Escape a Doomed Society 5. Carm. 1. 28. 32. A Corruption in the Archytas Ode? 6. Carm. 3. 2. 1. An Appeal to Friendly Youth 7. Carm. 3. 4. 10. The Terrified Nurse 8. Carm. 3. 6. Its Date and Function 9. An Appendix on the Text of Carm. 3. 6 exempli gratia 10. Carm. 3. 14. 11. Bentley Vindicated 11. Carm. 4. 8. 9f. rerum replacing res 12. Carm. 4. 8. A Distorted Ode 13. Carm. 4. 12. The Enigmatic Vergili 14. Carm. 4. 14. 20–24. The Misunderstood prope 15. Carm. 4. 15. 23-32. Trojan Anchises 16. Saec. 25–29. Prayer versus Fact 17. Ep. 1. 1. 78. Greedy Widows? 18. Ep. 2. 1. 45-46. Syntax to be Simplified 19. Ep. 2. 1. 132–133. The Bard as Mediator 20. Ars 65. A Late Recognition of Bentley’s Conjecture 21. Ars 120. Whose Honour? 22. Ars 254. Cruces or Emendation? 23. Ars 351-353. An Ignored Question Mark. References I Part II: Other Authors 1. Conjectural Emendation in three Stages: Diagnosis, Conjecture, Interpretation 2. Ennius Ann. 42 Sk. Ilia left alone 3. Ennius Ann. 220-1 Sk. The Nature of Discordia 4. Ennius Ann. 579 Sk. A Statue for the Conqueror 5. Ennius scen. 32 TrRF. The gemitus of Andromacha 6. Ennius scen. 130 TrRF. Telephus at Argos 7. Ennius Var. 17-18 V. Tears for the Poet 8. Catullus 64. 313. The Spinning Parcae 9. Catullus 67. In Search of Sense 10. Sallust Cat. 3. 5. Another Deletion? 11. Sallust Cat. 57. 4. A locus conclamatus 12. Liv. 4. 20. Iuppiter feretrius, Livy and Augustus 13. Hadrian’s Animula vagula. Diagnosis and Interpretation References II Part III: Vergil 1. Ecl. 3. 100. A Bull’s Skin and Bones 2. Ecl. 4. 40-63. A Baby’s Smile once more 3. G. 2. 20-22. The Art of Propagation 4. G. 2. 265-268. The Nursery for Vine Plants 5. A. 1. 377. An Instance of forte at Stake 6. A. 3. 147-152. An Epiphany and its Textual Issues 7. A. 9. 463. The Fruitfulness of a Withdrawn Charge 8. A. 11. 151-153. Pallas’ Promise to Evander 9. Additions and Second Thoughts