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Chapter 1 - Cicero and the Poets
Hannah Čulík-Baird, Boston University
Book:

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Published online:

21 April 2022

Print publication:

28 April 2022, pp 30-79
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An overview of Cicero’s engagment with Latin poetry with discussion of Cicero’s preferential interest in certain poets over others. Discussion of Cicero’s quotation of different Latin poets (Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Terence, Lucilius) and different genres of Latin poetry (epic, tragedy, comedy, satire), including Cicero’s aversion to the quotation of contemporary poets and neoterics. Discussion of Cicero’s own poetic compositions and practices of self-citation. An overview of Cicero’s quotation of Greek poets (Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Leonidas of Tarentum, Aeschylus, Callimachus, Hesiod, Menander, Pindar, Archilochus, Stesichorus) and proverbs. Discussion of Cicero’s Latin translations of Greek poets (Aratus, Euripides, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles). Discussion of Cicero’s quotations of poetry from memory versus from a book.

8 - The Wycliffite Bible
from Part II - Why Do We Study the Manuscript?
- By Elizabeth Solopova
Edited by Orietta Da Rold, University of Cambridge, Elaine Treharne, Stanford University, California
Book:

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

Published online:

11 December 2020

Print publication:

17 December 2020, pp 179-186
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On the origins, dissemination, and nature of the Wycliffite Bible and its many manuscripts – especially in the first half of the fifteenth century – and how it can be shown to be, in part, supported by the nobility, certainly aimed at erudite readers.

48 - Reading Practices
from Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By Jean-Christophe Mayer
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

Published online:

17 August 2019

Print publication:

21 January 2016, pp 354-360
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Part V - Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- By John Jowett
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Book:

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

Published online:

17 August 2019

Print publication:

21 January 2016, pp 323-374
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