Critica

Egil Kraggerud is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on Vergil and has translated works by Vergil, Aeschylus and Euripides, among others.

Introduction Part I: Horace 1. Epod. 1. Exemplifying Challenges in Editing Horace 2. Epod. 2. Sorting out Conjectures 3. Epod. 5. 87f. The Cruelty of Witchcraft 4. Epod. 16. 15f. How to Escape a Doomed Society 5. Carm. 1. 28. 32. A Corruption in the Archytas Ode? 6. Carm. 3. 2. 1. An Appeal to Friendly Youth 7. Carm. 3. 4. 10. The Terrified Nurse 8. Carm. 3. 6. Its Date and Function 9. An Appendix on the Text of Carm. 3. 6 exempli gratia 10. Carm. 3. 14. 11. Bentley Vindicated 11. Carm. 4. 8. 9f. rerum replacing res 12. Carm. 4. 8. A Distorted Ode 13. Carm. 4. 12. The Enigmatic Vergili 14. Carm. 4. 14. 20–24. The Misunderstood prope 15. Carm. 4. 15. 23-32. Trojan Anchises 16. Saec. 25–29. Prayer versus Fact 17. Ep. 1. 1. 78. Greedy Widows? 18. Ep. 2. 1. 45-46. Syntax to be Simplified 19. Ep. 2. 1. 132–133. The Bard as Mediator 20. Ars 65. A Late Recognition of Bentley’s Conjecture 21. Ars 120. Whose Honour? 22. Ars 254. Cruces or Emendation? 23. Ars 351-353. An Ignored Question Mark. References I Part II: Other Authors 1. Conjectural Emendation in three Stages: Diagnosis, Conjecture, Interpretation 2. Ennius Ann. 42 Sk. Ilia left alone 3. Ennius Ann. 220-1 Sk. The Nature of Discordia 4. Ennius Ann. 579 Sk. A Statue for the Conqueror 5. Ennius scen. 32 TrRF. The gemitus of Andromacha 6. Ennius scen. 130 TrRF. Telephus at Argos 7. Ennius Var. 17-18 V. Tears for the Poet 8. Catullus 64. 313. The Spinning Parcae 9. Catullus 67. In Search of Sense 10. Sallust Cat. 3. 5. Another Deletion? 11. Sallust Cat. 57. 4. A locus conclamatus 12. Liv. 4. 20. Iuppiter feretrius, Livy and Augustus 13. Hadrian’s Animula vagula. Diagnosis and Interpretation References II Part III: Vergil 1. Ecl. 3. 100. A Bull’s Skin and Bones 2. Ecl. 4. 40-63. A Baby’s Smile once more 3. G. 2. 20-22. The Art of Propagation 4. G. 2. 265-268. The Nursery for Vine Plants 5. A. 1. 377. An Instance of forte at Stake 6. A. 3. 147-152. An Epiphany and its Textual Issues 7. A. 9. 463. The Fruitfulness of a Withdrawn Charge 8. A. 11. 151-153. Pallas’ Promise to Evander 9. Additions and Second Thoughts