From the Protohistory to the History of the Text (Studien zur klassischen Philologie Book 173)

This volume contains the papers of the colloquium Protohistory of the Text , which took place on 28 and 29 November 2013 at the Universitat de Barcelona. Each paper is devoted to the transmission of a major classical Latin text. The contributors are distinguished scholars from around the world such as Paolo Fedeli, Peter Kruschwitz, Marc Mayer, Stephen Oakley, Oronzo Pecere, Antonio Ramírez de Verger and Richard Tarrant. They discuss texts ranging from the comedies of Plautus and Terence through the writings of Cicero, Livy and Virgil to the Historia Augusta . Their papers review existing scholarship and offer new insights into the transmission of these texts and especially into their protohistory, the phase of their history that precedes the earliest surviving manuscripts. Cover Summary Preface (Javier Velaza) Playwrights, actor-managers and the Plautinian text in antiquity (Carlo M. Lucarini) Ne cum poeta scriptura evanesceret. Exploring the protohistory of Terence’s dramatic scripts (Peter Kruschwitz) Which protohistory of the text can be grasped from Carolingian manuscripts? The case of Cicero’s De natura deorum (Clara Auvray-Assayas) Cicero. Speeches. An overview (Xavier Espluga) César: aproximación a la difusión temprana de su obra (Antonio Moreno) The protohistory of the text of Catullus (Dániel Kiss) Outlines for a protohistory of Sallust’s text (Rodolfo Funari) The ‘proto-history’ of the text of Livy (S. P. Oakley) Protostoria del testo di Properzio (Paolo Fedeli) Preistoria e protostoria del testo virgiliano: ancora sul preproemio dell’Eneide e le laudes Galli (Maria Luisa Delvigo) The protohistory of the text of Horace (Richard Tarrant) The sources of the editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (The example of Met. 6.401–674) (A. Ramírez de Verger) The protohistory of the text of Martial (Javier Velaza) The protohistory of the texts of Persius and Juvenal (Oronzo Pecere) Génesis y evolución del texto de la Historia Augusta. Consideraciones a propósito de la Vita Pescenni Nigri (Marc Mayer) Bibliography This volume contains studies by distinguished international scholars on the transmission of major classical Latin texts, including the writings of Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Caesar and Virgil. It offers fresh insights into the protohistory of the text, the phase of its history that precedes the earliest surviving textual witnesses.