STUDIES ON THE TEXT OF SUETONIUS' DE UITA CAESARUM

Second impression. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh, with a touch of rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, with a stain to the front inner hinge, are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper, which is lightly toned to the upper edge of the flaps.

A companion volume to Kaster's Oxford Classical Texts critical edition of Suetonius' 'Lives of the Caesars'. Its contents are thus summarised '[P]rovides detailed insight into the resesarch and textual analysis behind the edition. Part I presents the first comprehensive and accurate account of the medieval manuscript tradition (ninth to thirteenth centuries) on which the Oxford Classical Text is based, and Part II analyses hundreds of passages where a variety of textual problems are encountered, often offering new solutions' (publisher's blurb).