Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts: Volume I: Quintus Curtius Rufus and Dictys Cretensis
S. P. Oakley (Kennedy Professor of Latin, Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Emmanuel College)
Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts: Volume I: Quintus Curtius Rufus and Dictys Cretensis
S. P. Oakley (Kennedy Professor of Latin, Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Emmanuel College)
This volume contains the first attempt to show in detail how two Latin texts, the history of Alexander the Great, written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, and the spoof history of the Trojan War, allegedly written by Dictys Cretensis, survived from antiquity until the fifteenth century, when printing provided a new security. It shows how over 200 manuscripts can be fitted onto family trees and reveals much about scribal practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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