Cicero's Brutus : Edition, textual commentary, and study of the transmission / Douglas R. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Douglas R., author.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oratory, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus--Criticism, Textual.

Brutus (Cicero, Marcus Tullius).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2024

Language Note:

Text in Latin ; commentary and additional material in English.

Summary:

"Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text, a critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary. The first part of the book presents the study of the manuscript tradition, employing the stemmatic method to establish the relationships between all 107 extant manuscripts of Brutus, and demonstrating that the stemma has three independent branches in the first part of the text and four in the second. The study also shows that the ninth-century Cremona fragment is part of the long-lost archetype, the Codex Laudensis, and that F, the manuscript copied by Niccolò Niccoli, is the source of the majority of the tradition. Brief descriptions are provided of the manuscripts in a catalogue. The second part of the volume presents a new edition of Brutus with critical apparatus, based on the study of the text's transmission. Each textual problem is considered afresh and careful attention is paid to historical evidence and Ciceronian style. The edition is followed by a detailed textual commentary, which discusses a range of significant textual problems."--from the back cover.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Introduction: Review of scholarship: Textual criticism ; The transmission of Brutus ; The Stemmatic Method ; Text and apparatus: A guide

The Transmission of Brutus: The Cremona Fragment ; A New Stemma ; A textual history of Cicero's Brutus

Text and Commentary: Sigla

Brutus [Latin text]

Commentary

Appendix 1: The Manuscripts and Fifteenth-Century Editions of Brutus

Appendix 2: The Descendants of p and B

Appendix 3: The Descendants of F

Appendix 4: Alphabetical List of Sigla

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Began as a doctoral dissertation submitted in 2021 to complete the author's DPhil at Trinity College, Oxford, per the Acknowledgments and the publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus.

ISBN:

0198883943

9780198883944

OCLC:

1422221087

Publisher Number:

90102457921