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Author: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, based in the UK)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.90cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9780199693931
ISBN 10: 0199693935
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 27 November 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
He has produced not only the best edition of Gellius to date, but also a masterpiece of Latin textual scholarship ... an outstanding linguistic and stylistic sensibility enables Holford-Strevens to detect hidden problems in the text and to reopen well-known ones if the solution does not strike him as satisfactory. * Daniel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Gelliana too is admirably compact; it offers just 165 pages of commentary on 684 pages of Latin text. Most textual problems are discussed in under a dozen lines. A consistent focus on the key issues at stake yields transparency ... The textual commentary in Gelliana is not limited to new proposals made by Holford-Strevens, but embraces a broad range of problems and points of interest. In effect, the commentary serves to explain the constitutio textus, which is no less important in a critical edition than the study of the sources. * D'aniel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * He has produced not only the best edition of Gellius to date, but also a masterpiece of Latin textual scholarship ... an outstanding linguistic and stylistic sensibility enables Holford-Strevens to detect hidden problems in the text and to reopen well-known ones if the solution does not strike him as satisfactory. * D'aniel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Gelliana too is admirably compact; it offers just 165 pages of commentary on 684 pages of Latin text. Most textual problems are discussed in under a dozen lines. A consistent focus on the key issues at stake yields transparency ... The textual commentary in Gelliana is not limited to new proposals made by Holford-Strevens, but embraces a broad range of problems and points of interest. In effect, the commentary serves to explain the constitutio textus, which is no less important in a critical edition than the study of the sources. * Dániel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * He has produced not only the best edition of Gellius to date, but also a masterpiece of Latin textual scholarship ... an outstanding linguistic and stylistic sensibility enables Holford-Strevens to detect hidden problems in the text and to reopen well-known ones if the solution does not strike him as satisfactory. * Dániel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Gelliana too is admirably compact; it offers just 165 pages of commentary on 684 pages of Latin text. Most textual problems are discussed in under a dozen lines. A consistent focus on the key issues at stake yields transparency ... The textual commentary in Gelliana is not limited to new proposals made by Holford-Strevens, but embraces a broad range of problems and points of interest. In effect, the commentary serves to explain the constitutio textus, which is no less important in a critical edition than the study of the sources. * Daniel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * He has produced not only the best edition of Gellius to date, but also a masterpiece of Latin textual scholarship ... an outstanding linguistic and stylistic sensibility enables Holford-Strevens to detect hidden problems in the text and to reopen well-known ones if the solution does not strike him as satisfactory. * Daniel Kiss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Author Information
After education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1967, MA 1970, D.Phil. 1971), Leofranc Holford-Strevens worked as a learned reader at Oxford University Press from 1971 to 1984, and thereafter as a copy-editor until his retirement in 2011 (from 2005 with the title Consultant Scholar-Editor).
