1st Edition

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

By Egil Kraggerud Copyright 2020
    342 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    342 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

     

    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

    Biography

    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.