Textual Criticism

Alexander Riehle

Alexander Riehle

Associate Professor of Classics
On leave 2023–24

Research interests: Byzantine literature, especially rhetoric and epistolography; sociology of literature; textual criticism and editorial theory

Boylston 226
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Office Hours: By appointment
Richard J. Tarrant

Richard J. Tarrant

Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Emeritus

Research Interests: Latin poetry; Greek and Roman drama; transmission and editing of Latin texts

Widener Library 17
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P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Oxford Classical Texts)
Tarrant, Richard, ed. 2004. P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Oxford Classical Texts). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Publisher's Version Abstract

For this edition of the Metamorphoses R. J. Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfth-century manuscripts, the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings. He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors, and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated. This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovid's greatest work.