VARRO IN VIRGILIAN COMMENTARIES: TRANSMISSION IN FRAGMENTS

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 d...

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Published in:Bulletin - Institute of Classical Studies 2017-12, Vol.60 (2), p.92-107
Main Author: VALLAT, DANIEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Christianity
Classical studies
fragments
grammarians
Ideology
Information communication
quotation
Roman civilization
Servius
textual transmission
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Varro, Marcus Terentius (116-27 BC)
Virgil (70-19 BC)
Virgilian commentaries
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0076-0730
2041-5370
DOI:10.1111/2041-5370.12059