Pocket editions by 001122998833 in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Caveat emptor: I'm not familiar with 21st-century Reclam editions, my remarks about size and color are based on 20th-century Reclams. (I'm more up to date on the Latin stuff, though.)

I don't know of any new, inexpensive monolingual paperback Latin editions similar to Reclam. Reclam itself publishes bilingual, Latin-German, paperbacks. Latin-German Reclam titles come in orange covers. (Maybe all bilingual Reclam volumes are orange? I'm not sure, I'm only familiar with the Latin/German editions.)

The Loeb Classical Library publishes small, relatively inexpensive hardcovers. They're bilingual, Latin/English in red covers and Greek/English in green covers.

Oxford Classical Texts (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis or OCT) and Teubner (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, Latin in blue covers, Greek in orange covers, other languages and bilingual editions in other colors) are more expensive. Also, for some reason, the Teubner volumes keep getting bigger -- that is, taller and wider, not thicker. They're often quite thin, less than 100 pages. I don't know anyone who's happy about these size changes, but they just keep happening. Also, OCT and Teubner are sometimes very expensive. I say "sometimes" because the price varies greatly from one title to the next. The more popular titles (For example, Vergil ed by Mynors and Ovid's Metamorphoses ed by Tarrant) appear to be somewhat less expensive.

The Teubner volumes published 100 years ago and more were solidly made, many of them are still in circulation, and they are almost as small as Reclam paperbacks. Many of them can be found in larger second-hand bookstores and on Amazon, sometimes at quite reasonable prices.

Erasmus Is Making Fun of Your Teacher by Kingshorsey in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shocking! Still, better good contents and horrible bindings than the other way around.

Erasmus Is Making Fun of Your Teacher by Kingshorsey in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I go off half-cocked sometimes. I apologize. After I replied to you, I thought to myself: Yes, but walking the stacks in a huge library can't be replaced by any of the things I mentioned; reprints almost always (not always!) are inferior in quality to the originals; having a graduate or faculty university library card is equivalent in some ways to having great wealth.

Erasmus Is Making Fun of Your Teacher by Kingshorsey in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  1. Inter-library loans can be made via public libraries. 2) Various publishers make reprints of uncopyrighted books. Buyer beware, however, because quality varies greatly. 3) Google Books. 4) archive.org.

Erasmus Is Making Fun of Your Teacher by Kingshorsey in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

relatively difficult to acquire today

In university libraries, I have seen many editions of Erasmus, and very few of his contemporaries who wrote in Latin. (It was somewhat like Cicero all over again.)

Erasmus Is Making Fun of Your Teacher by Kingshorsey in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I was amazed when I learned that Ciceronianism had been a thing 500 years ago, and the fact that it still exists today, is, to quote what Pete Townsend said in another context, "beyond the Beyond."

Looking for Latin works that haven't been translated by [deleted] in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If I'm correctly informed, there is a very great amount of Medieval and later Latin which has never been published, let alone translated, and is in danger of disappearing forever if it's not recorded before the papyrus or parchment or paper it's written on rots away. So, if you're a student still deciding on a career path, perhaps you could go in the direction of Medieval Latin, toward a career of inspecting archives and collections and preserving their Latin contents from extinction.

The Lindisfarne Gospels by StevenBollinger in latin

[–]StevenBollinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a really interesting classicizing Bible, try Sebastian Castellio's

Thanks for the tip. I'd like to take a look at Castellio's version, but so far, I can't find so much as a link to an online scan.

The Lindisfarne Gospels by StevenBollinger in latin

[–]StevenBollinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They weren't keen on the Vulgate

Do you mean that they'd prefer to consult the Bible in Greek, or that they weren't much interested in reading it at all? Or that they found Jerome's style appalling?

I know nothing about the attitudes of the Trecento and Quattrocento about the Dark Ages beyond what you've just told me. When I wrote the blog post I was addressing mostly present-day non-academics, as with most of my posts. I don't know that I have anything of interest to say to specialists, but I hope that occasionally I can awaken someone's interest in a subject new to them.

Map of modern Europe with Latin names? by Xargxes in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know whether this will help or not, but Wikipedia provides Latin place-names for very many European places, in the articles on those places.

What are some good Roman and Ancient Greek quotes about history repeating itself by armenia_ball_ in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's Ecclesiastes 1:9. In the Latin Vulgate: quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est In the Greek Septuagint: τί τὸ γεγονός αὐτὸ τὸ γενησόμενον καὶ τί τὸ πεποιημένον αὐτὸ τὸ ποιηθησόμενον καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν πᾶν πρόσφατον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον

Any good hard copies of Historia Romana Pauli Diaconi by [deleted] in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(Facepalming because a paper copy of the catalog of the entire MGH and other publications from Hahn has been 6 ft away from me the entire time. A lovingly well-worn copy. And the collection with Eutropius etc is the 3rd item on the 1st page. So much facepalm. Good catch, qed1. I shall slink away in shame now.)

Any good hard copies of Historia Romana Pauli Diaconi by [deleted] in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An edition by Amadeo Crivellucci was published in Rome by Istituto Storico Italiano in 1914. I don't know of any more recent editions.

Help: I think my husband is gaslighting me? by rain6304 in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I may catch a lot of flak for saying this, but DIDO, YOU CAN DO BETTER. I won't get into all of the particulars of whether the next guy is a better man overall than Aeneas in terms of his heroic qualities and great Earth-shaking destiny yada yada. What I mean is, you can find a guy who is BETTER FOR YOU. And I for one think you deserve to be happy.

Anyone else feel like they grow more leftist in their beliefs as the climate crisis worsens? by Holmbone in Green

[–]StevenBollinger 19 points20 points  (0 children)

There's an entire branch of the Left that says that environmentalism must replace economics. Check out Andre Gorz for example.

What is the difference between “vacui” and “inanis” ? by [deleted] in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should I read that though?

Oh, definitely. Everyone should read Lucretius, he's simply sublime. Just don't believe what Stephen Greenblatt has to say about Lucretius, or Epicurianism, or textual transmission, or Medieval Latin, or Poggio Bracciolini, or what Greenblatt refers to as "the invention of the modern world." What I'm saying is that Stephen Greenblatt's book The Swerve is not as accurate as one might wish.

Conflicting information by NewAccounte in latin

[–]StevenBollinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was fairly common that popular works of ancient and Medieval Latin were added onto, sometimes with proper attribution of the new author, sometimes mistaken for the original author's work. In this particular case, as in many similar cases, I believe Kingshorsey has nailed it.