Overview
This new critical edition aims to provide a new standard text of Apuleius' De Deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, and De mundo, allowing readers to get closer than ever before to the philosophical writings of the renowned orator, extraordinary prose stylist, and Platonist philosopher. Knowledge of these three works is crucial to understanding the reinterpretation and transmission of Greek philosophical thought in the Latin world: based on a new collation of the ancient manuscripts and scrupulous investigation of all previous editions, the Latin text presented here relies on a safer ms. basis than its predecessors. The enforcement of the criterion of the so-called 'signal-word' in particular has enabled improved solutions for many textual problems to be found, some older emendations to be confirmed, and previously unnoticed corruptions to be located and cogently healed, while the rich and detailed apparatus criticus selectively focuses on only plausible conjectures in doubtful passages. A fluent Latin praefatio offers a neat explanation of the principles which have been adopted throughout the edition, while also ably balancing comprehensive coverage of the main manuscript sources, their histories, and their relationships with lucidity and concision, despite the intricacy of the textual tradition.
Full Product Details
Author: Giuseppina Magnaldi (Professor of Classical Philology, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Turin)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 19.40cm
Weight: 0.284kg
ISBN: 9780198841418
ISBN 10: 0198841418
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 05 December 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
... a very welcome new beginning for Apuleius studies, an opportunity for a fresh look at the whole corpus...The volume is well organised and thorough, and M.'s editorial reasoning, as presented in her (stylistically Apuleian) praefatio, is clear and accessible. * Jeffrey P. Ulrich, The Classical Review *
She presents us with a critical text that is based on an innovative and agreeable configuration of the manuscript tradition and equipped with a reliable bibliography. This new Apuleius text stimulates further reflections and it will be necessary for future studies to deal with it. * Elisa Dal Chiele * ... a very welcome new beginning for Apuleius studies, an opportunity for a fresh look at the whole corpus...The volume is well organised and thorough, and M.'s editorial reasoning, as presented in her (stylistically Apuleian) praefatio, is clear and accessible. * Jeffrey P. Ulrich, The Classical Review *
Author Information
Giuseppina Magnaldi is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Turin (Italy), where she taught until 2018. She is a member of the scientific boards of the Revue d'Histoire des Textes, Lexis, and Fondazione Parini Chirio, and is also co-editor of the 'Minima Philologica' and 'Millennium' series for Edizioni dell'Orso. In December 2001 she was awarded the Italian Premiership's prize for culture 'for outstanding activity in essay-writing'; she has published many books and articles about the philosophical theory of oikeíosis and on the manuscript tradition and the constitutio textus of several Greek and Latin authors (including Galen, Cicero, Varro, Seneca, Suetonius, Tacitus, Gellius, and Apuleius), with special attention to the ancient marginal notes passed into the texts.
