Michael Reeve

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Michael Reeve

FBA
Born (1943-01-11) 11 January 1943 (age 78)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
EducationBalliol College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineTextual Criticism
InstitutionsOxford University
Cambridge University

Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts.[1] He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.

Career[]

Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2] In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties.[3] On February 12th, 2014, Reeve was elected in the Accademia Ambrosiana (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies.[4][5] In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).[6]

Selected publications[]

  • Longus, Daphnis et Chloe, Leipzig, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1982 (2nd ed. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1986; 3rd ed. München – Leipzig, K. G. Saur (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1994)
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 7: Oratio Pro P. Quinctio, Stuttgart – Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1992
  • Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris, Oxford, The Clarendon Press (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis), 2004
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 24: Oratio de provinciis consularibus; Oratio pro L. Cornelio Balbo, Berlin – New York, W. De Gruyter (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 2007 [ed. Tadeusz Maslowski, preface by M. D. Reeve]
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, with N. Wright, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2007
  • Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Storia e Letteratura, 270), 2011[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Hunter and Oakley (2015) xiii-xiv.
  2. ^ "Professor Michael Reeve". classics.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Michael Reeve FBA". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Studi greci e latini". Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  5. ^ See also Organi direttivi ed elenco degli Accademici, in Stefano Costa - Federico Gallo (eds.), Miscellanea Graecolatina IV, Milano - Roma 2017 (Ambrosiana Graecolatina, 6), p. 518.
  6. ^ "Reeve, Michael D. | Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei". www.lincei.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  7. ^ Stansbury, Mark. "Reeve (M.D.) Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission" (PDF). The Classical Review. 64: 479–81.

Works Cited[]

  • Hunter, R. and Oakley, S.P. (2015) Latin Literature and its Transmission (Cambridge)
Academic offices
Preceded by
E.J. Kenney 		Kennedy Professor of Latin Cambridge University
1984–2006 		Succeeded by
Stephen Oakley
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