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OverviewThe Servian commentaries on Vergil are doubly distinguished: they are among the very few ancient commentaries on classical Latin texts to survive essentially intact; and they exist in two radically different forms-the original commentary created by the grammarian Servius early in the fifth century, emphasizing grammar and syntax, and an augmented version produced in the seventh century when a reader blended his Servius with much other recherché ancient lore. In the 1920s, the medievalist Edward Kennard Rand undertook to produce a truly modern edition that would fully reveal for the first time the character of the commentaries' two versions. All did not go smoothly, however: a volume devoted to Aeneid 1-2 appeared in 1946, and another, with the commentaries on Aeneid 3-5, in 1965; this edition of the commentaries on Aeneid 9-12 is the first new contribution to the series to appear in more than fifty years. On his death in 2013, Charles E. Murgia left publishable versions of the text, upper and lower critical apparatuses, and large parts of the introduction, and he had gathered most of the data for a testimonial apparatus. Robert A. Kaster completed the work on the testimonia and introduction (using some of Murgia's other writings to supplement the latter), added some subsidiary elements, and prepared the whole for publication. Thanks primarily to Murgia's work, this edition is superior to its predecessors in the series, and to all other editions of Servius, in every respect. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles E. Murgia (Professor Emeritus, Classics, Professor Emeritus, Classics, University of California, Berkeley) , Robert A. Kaster (Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin, Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin, Princeton University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780190849566ISBN 10: 0190849568 Pages: 632 Publication Date: 10 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: Latin Table of ContentsTable of Contents i. Foreword ii. Preface iii. Bibliography iv. Abbreviations v. Authors and Works TEXT 1. Table of Sigla 2. SERVIANI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM NONVM COMMENTARII 3. SERVIANI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM DECIMVM COMMENTARII 4. SERVIANI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM VNDECIMVM COMENTARII 5. SERVIANI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM DVODECIMVM COMENTARII 6. TESTIMONIA IN AENEIDEM IX 7. TESTIMONIA IN AENEIDEM X 8. TESTIMONIA IN AENEIDEM XI 9. TESTIMONIA IN AENEIDEM XII 10. APPARATVS SVPERIOR IN AEN. IX 11. APPARATVS SVPERIOR IN AEN. X 12. APPARATVS SVPERIOR IN AEN. XI 13. APPARATVS SVPERIOR IN AEN. XII 14. APPARATVS CRITICVS INFERIOR IN AEN. IX 15. APPARATVS CRITICVS INFERIOR IN AEN. X 16. APPARATVS CRITICVS INFERIOR IN AEN. XI 17. APPARATVS CRITICVS INFERIOR IN AEN. XII APPENDICES 18. APPENDIX A: SCHOLIA ADESPOTA CODICVM Tv 19. APPENDIX B: ON RAMIRES' FAMILY ?ReviewsThe realization of this (part of the) 'Harvard Servius' project has been hard to believe in for a long time, and yet here it is, an edition of the Servian commentaries on Aeneid 9--12! The product of decades of dedicated work by Charles Murgia and his students, substantially supplemented, judiciously sifted, and neatly prepared for publication by Robert Kaster, this splendid edition retains its predecessors' fundamental aim of distinguishing clearly between Servius and Servius Auctus and so reveals the character of the latter, but its critical apparatus is far more useful and-mirabile dictu-it provides both the long-desiderated testimonial apparatus and a finding aid that makes the sometimes recondite testimonia readily accessible. A work of enduring scholarship, all the more to be celebrated because so nearly lost. --Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania This edition-the culmination of many years of work by the late Charles Murgia-sets a new standard for the editing of Servius' commentary on the Aeneid. Robert Kaster has rendered an enormous service to scholarship by completing Murgia's work and preparing it for publication. Its appearance is a landmark in Servian studies. --Richard J. Tarrant, Harvard University All Latinists are in Robert Kaster's debt for completing with such distinction the late Charles Murgia's long-awaited volume of Servius. Together they have created a better, clearer, and more scholarly edition than E. K. Rand could ever have imagined when he conceived it a century ago. --James E. G. Zetzel, Columbia University Author InformationCharles E. Murgia was Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1972 to 1994 and continued his research there, along with occasional teaching, as an Emeritus. Robert A. Kaster is Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature and Professor of Classics, Princeton University, and author or editor of eleven books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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