Author: Riesenweber, Thomas
Title: The History of the De Inventione text in Antiquity
Review/Collection: «Ciceroniana On Line» VIII, 2, 2024
Editor: Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron & Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 483-533
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: This article examines the value of the indirect tradition of Cicero’s De inventione for the reconstruction of the text. Using selected examples from Quintilian and Victorinus, it shows that the editors’ disdain for the testimony of the ancient readers that has prevailed for a good 150 years in our critical editions is unfounded. The article therefore argues in favour of an unprejudiced examination and evaluation of all existing textual witnesses on the basis of genealogical principles and text-immanent criteria.
Works:
Link: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/11645/9556
Author initials: Riesenweber 2024
Title: The History of the De Inventione text in Antiquity
Review/Collection: «Ciceroniana On Line» VIII, 2, 2024
Editor: Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron & Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 483-533
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: This article examines the value of the indirect tradition of Cicero’s De inventione for the reconstruction of the text. Using selected examples from Quintilian and Victorinus, it shows that the editors’ disdain for the testimony of the ancient readers that has prevailed for a good 150 years in our critical editions is unfounded. The article therefore argues in favour of an unprejudiced examination and evaluation of all existing textual witnesses on the basis of genealogical principles and text-immanent criteria.
Works:
Link: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/11645/9556
Author initials: Riesenweber 2024
