Varro in Virgilian Commentaries
Transmission in Fragments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9308384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Vallat (Université Lumière Lyon 2, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 92-107 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0076-0730 • E-ISSN: 2041-5370 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/2041-5370.12059 |
| OpenAlex | W2773584233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
This paper analyses the transmission of Varro in late antique Virgil commentaries. Various problems are identified and discussed: the reliability of authors' names and titles of works in citations and testimonies; different forms of quotation; complications entailed by manuscript transmission; the delimitation of the fragments; the indirect transmission of Varro already in antiquity; the status and function of Varro in a Virgil commentary. Finally I suggest that Varro had a special if implicit status in fourth-century ideological debates, in the tacit rivalry of grammarians with Christian polemicists
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| Citations per year | 3.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |