Michael Reeve

Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts.[1] He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.

Michael Reeve

FBA
Born (1943-01-11) 11 January 1943
NationalityBritish
Academic background
EducationBalliol College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineTextual Criticism
InstitutionsOxford University
Cambridge University

Career

Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2] In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties.[3]

Selected publications
  • Longus, Daphnis et Chloe, Leipzig, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1982 (2nd ed. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1986; 3rd ed. München – Leipzig, K. G. Saur (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1994)
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 7: Oratio Pro P. Quinctio, Stuttgart – Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1992
  • Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris, Oxford, The Clarendon Press (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis), 2004
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 24: Oratio de provinciis consularibus; Oratio pro L. Cornelio Balbo, Berlin – New York, W. De Gruyter (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 2007 [ed. Tadeusz Maslowski, preface by M. D. Reeve]
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, with N. Wright, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2007
  • Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (Storia e Letteratura, 270), 2011[4]

References
  1. Hunter and Oakley (2015) xiii-xiv.
  2. "Professor Michael Reeve". classics.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  3. "Professor Michael Reeve FBA". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  4. Stansbury, Mark. "Reeve (M.D.) Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission" (PDF). The Classical Review. 64: 479–81.

Works Cited
  • Hunter, R. and Oakley, S.P. (2015) Latin Literature and its Transmission (Cambridge)


Academic offices
Preceded by
E.J. Kenney		 Kennedy Professor of Latin Cambridge University
1984–2006		 Succeeded by
Stephen Oakley
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