Michael Reeve
Michael Reeve | |
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| Born | Michael David Reeve 11 January 1943 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Textual criticism |
| Institutions | |
Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and professor emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts.[1] He was the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.
Career
[edit | edit source]Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2]
In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties.[3] In February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies.[4][5]
Reeve was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography in 2011-2012 speaking on "Printing the Latin Classics."
In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).[6]
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]- Longus, Daphnis et Chloe, Leipzig, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1982 (2nd ed. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1986; 3rd ed. München – Leipzig, K. G. Saur (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1994)
- M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 7: Oratio Pro P. Quinctio, Stuttgart – Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1992
- Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris, Oxford, The Clarendon Press (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis), 2004
- M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 24: Oratio de provinciis consularibus; Oratio pro L. Cornelio Balbo, Berlin – New York, W. De Gruyter (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 2007 [ed. Tadeusz Maslowski, preface by M. D. Reeve]
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, with N. Wright, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2007
- Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Storia e Letteratura, 270), 2011[7]
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References
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- ^ See also Organi direttivi ed elenco degli Accademici, in Stefano Costa - Federico Gallo (eds.), Miscellanea Graecolatina IV, Milano - Roma 2017 (Ambrosiana Graecolatina, 6), p. 518.
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Works cited
[edit | edit source]- Hunter, R. and Oakley, S. P. (2015) Latin Literature and its Transmission (Cambridge)
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