List of book series on ancient Greek and Latin literature

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This list of book series on ancient Greek and Latin literature captures book series that are programmatically devoted to ancient Greek and Latin literature. If the title of the series does not expressly provide otherwise, these series of books, in accordance with the program of Classical Philology , encompass all of ancient literature, that is, both Latin and ancient Greek literature (rarely in separate sub-series, mostly mixed).

Text-critical editions

The aim of these series is to offer a scientifically as well as possible secured text as well as a thorough insight into the handwritten tradition of the ancient Greek and Latin writers in praefatio and apparatus, and basically contain no commentary or translation.

Historical ranks

Editions with translation

Depending on the publisher's objectives, the text in the original language has either been taken from an older edition unchanged or is based on his own critical judgment.

Text editions of Christian literature only

Translations

Translations of Christian literature only

Comments

The editor is usually free to decide whether his own text and, if necessary, a translation is included.

Research literature

It lists a series of books that collect research literature in the form of monographs or commentaries on ancient Greek and Latin literature. Often, however, they also contain works on other areas of antiquity.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See John GW Henderson : Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics , Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd 2006; ders., The way we were: RG Austin, In Caelianam , in: RK Gibson, Chr. Shuttleworth Kraus (Ed.), The classical commentary: histories, practices, theory . Brill, Leiden 2002 ( Mnemosyne , Supplementa, Vol. 232), ISBN 9004121536 , Google Books [1]