The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism

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Prof Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo (Professor of Classical Philology, Professor of Classical Philology, Wolfson College, University of Oxford) Dr Scott Scullion (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Worcester College, University of Oxford)

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism

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Prof Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo (Professor of Classical Philology, Professor of Classical Philology, Wolfson College, University of Oxford), Dr Scott Scullion (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Worcester College, University of Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
07 May 2026

Palaeography (history of writing); Lexicography; Translation & interpretation; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classical Studies

Readers and scholars of contemporary literature in English and other languages generally do not have to worry very much about their source texts: what is published in book form is essentially what the author wrote, perhaps with a few uncorrected typographical errors. Readers and scholars of Latin and Greek literature are not in such a fortunate position. The texts presented in 'critical editions', such as the Oxford Classical Texts or the Teubner or Budé series, though the outcome of painstaking scholarship carried out over centuries, are by no means as certain as those of most modern literature. Ancient texts were copied and recopied by hand over the course of more than a millennium, and in the process both accidental and deliberate alterations accumulated, often leaving the text in a grievously 'corrupted' condition. The original, 'autograph' texts are long lost, and often our earliest copies are more than a thousand years removed from them. Textual criticism is the discipline that examines whatever 'witnesses' to an ancient text are available and tries to identify mistakes in its transmission and so far as possible establish its original form. Most of what we know about the ancient world comes from written sources, and textual criticism is therefore fundamental to the study of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism is unprecedented in its scope and detail. It covers textual transmission in antiquity and the middle ages, the history of the subject and its most important practitioners, and methodological and practical aspects of textual criticism and editorial technique. It includes four case studies and, unlike most other treatments of the subject, deals also with textual criticism of inscriptions and papyri.

Volume editor: Prof Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo (Professor of Classical Philology Professor of Classical Philology Wolfson College University of Oxford), Dr Scott Scullion (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Worcester College, University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 1.177kg
ISBN: 9780198738121
ISBN 10: 0198738129
Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classical Studies
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 07 May 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott Scullion is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Worcester College, University of Oxford. A native of Toronto in Canada, he studied for his BA at the University of Toronto and for the PhD at Harvard University. He taught at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1989 to 2003 and joined Worcester College and the Oxford Faculty of Classics in 2003. He has published on Greek religion, Greek tragedy, Herodotus, and Greek literary history. Wolfgang de Melo is Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. He has written The Early Latin Verb System: Archaic Forms in Plautus, Terence, and Beyond (OUP 2007), Plautus: Comedies (5 vols., HUP 2011-13), Varros De lingua Latina: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (2 vols., OUP 2019), and Latin Linguistics: An Introduction (De Gruyter 2024).