Michael D. Reeve

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Michael David Reeve FBA (born January 11, 1943 ) is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Fellow of Pembroke College , Cambridge .

Life

After completing his studies in Oxford , Reeve worked as a scholar at Merton College , Oxford, from 1964 to 1965 , in the following academic year as a Woodhouse Research Fellow at St John's College there and a guest student at the Free University of Berlin , and from 1966 to 1984 a fellow and lecturer in Classics at Exeter College and at the same time University lecturer in classics, from 1984 until his retirement in 2006 Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University and Fellow of Pembroke College there, to which he still belongs. In addition, Reeve was visiting professor at the University of Hamburg (1976), at McMaster University (1979) and the University of Toronto (1982–83).

Reeve was one of the editors of the UK's leading journal Classical Quarterly from 1981 to 1986 and of Cambridge Classical Studies from 1984 to 2007 . He continues to direct the publication of the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (since 1984). From 1992 to 1997 he also edited the Pembroke College Gazette. He is also a member of the scientific advisory boards of two other specialist journals, the Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici since 1992, and the Revue d'Histoire des Textes since 1994 .

Reeve has also been a member of the Advisory Council of the Warburg Institute since 2008 and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 1990, a foreign member of the Istituto Lombardo in Milan since 1993 and of the British Academy since 1984 .

Focus of work

Reeve deals with ancient Greek and Latin literature mainly from the point of view of text transmission , palaeography , manuscript studies and textual criticism and is considered a leading expert in these areas. He is particularly interested in the history and logic of genealogical classification, also when comparing different areas (manuscripts, languages, species, folk tales and tales ). After editing a Middle Latin text by Geoffrey of Monmouth , Reeve is currently working on the transmission of the natural history of the Elder Pliny .

Publications (selection)

Editiones criticae

Editorships

  • (together with Oronzo Pecere): Formative stages of classical traditions: Latin texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Proceedings of a conference held at Erice, 16-22 October 1993 ... , Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto medioevo, 1995 (Biblioteca del Centro per il collegamento degli studi medievali e umanistici in Umbria, 15)

items

  • (with Colin Austin ): Notes on Sophocles, Ovid and Euripides , in: Maia 22 (1970) 3-18
  • Notes on Ovid's Heroides , in: Classical Quarterly ns 23 (1973) 324-38
  • Review of: P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistulae Heroidum quas H. Dörrie Hanoveranus ad fidem codicum edidit. Berolini et Novae [sic] Eboraci 1971 , in: Classical Review 24 (1974) 57-64
  • Heinsius's Manuscripts of Ovid , in: Rheinisches Museum 117 (1974) 133-66
  • Heinsius's Manuscripts of Ovid: A Supplement , in: Rheinisches Museum 119 (1976) 65-78
  • The 'Vetus Carnotensis' of Livy unmasked , in: Studies in Latin literature and its tradition in honor of CO Brink , ed.James Diggle ... (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society: Supplementary volumes, 15) (Cambridge: The Cambridge Philological Society, 1989), 97-112
  • The Transmission of the Historia Regum Britanniae ; in: Journal of Medieval Latin 1 (1991), 73-117
  • Boethius, Cassiodorus, and Vegetius , in: Nova de veteribus. Middle and New Latin Studies for Paul Gerhard Schmidt . Edited by Andreas Bihrer (Munich, Leipzig: Saur 2004), 176-79
  • Reconstructing Archetypes : A New Proposal and an Old Fallacy , in: P. Finglass, C. Collard, NJ Richardson (edd.): Hesperos. Studies in ancient Greek poetry presented to ML West on his seventieth birthday (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press 2007), 326-340
  • The re-emergence of ancient novels in Western Europe, 1300-1810 , in: The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel , ed. T. Whitmarsh, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Reeve, Michael D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reeve, Michael David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1943