Latin Literature
R. C. Whitton
First up, a brace of major Teubner editions. Marcus Deufert's De rerum natura marks significant moment in Lucretian studies. I suspect that most people, at least the Anglosphere, are still using Cyril Bailey's venerable Oxford Classical Text (revised 1922) for everyday reading, if not equally antique Loeb (W. D. Rouse, 1924). In broadest outline, text-critical views haven't changed much since: ‘closed’ tradition, which two Carolingian manuscripts rejoicing workaday names Oblongus and Quadratus prime witnesses, but often problematic ones; mass from Renaissance Italy, editors consult primarily conjectures. But last century has seen plenty important work, Deufert can report more precisely on various corrections made O Q; affirm all Italian descend O, give them stemma; pan many humanist conjectures; wade muddy river (xxi) modern interventions; offer his own solutions to, or non liquet on, textual problems small large. The result is text with novelties (and questions left open), an edition very different look.
Greece & Rome