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Scholars who edit the writings of Vergil start out from a privileged position. While we owe our knowledge of most of classical Latin literature to relatively corrupt manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, for the greatest Roman poet of all we have eight incomplete late antique manuscripts and two dozen others from the eighth and the ninth centuries, which are backed up by an indirect transmission consisting of several commentaries and a rich harvest of quotations from antiquity. Far from being spectacularly corrupt, Vergil’s manuscripts transmit most passages in at least one plausible version, and often in several. Recent critical editions have documented this exceptionally rich source material with increasing fullness and accuracy. Editors have not failed to respond to the unique antiquity of these manuscripts: Vergil’s oldest codices have received an accolade from as level-headed a scholar as R. A. B. Mynors, while Gian Biagio Conte has stated confidently that they enable us to restore the original text of the Aeneid.2 This editorial optimism has been mirrored in the reconstructions of the text: as Kraggerud puts it, “textual conservatism has become more rooted in the course of the last century” (p. 1), thanks to the editions not only of Mynors (Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid: 1969) and Conte (Aen.: 2009, Geo.: 2013), but also of Geymonat (Ecl., Geo., Aen.: 22008), Rivero, Estévez Sola, Librán Moreno and Ramírez de Verger (Aen.: 2009-11) and Ottaviano (Ecl.: 2013). At the start of this book Kraggerud makes an appeal “for a slight change of paradigm” in Vergilian textual criticism (p. 1). He states that its “ambition ... is to influence future editors and encourage them to become a little braver than they have been for the last hundred years or so”, arguing that “the ancient paradosis is too lacunose and arbitrary to serve as the sole basis for the text” (p. xv), which he illustrates by documenting the extent of

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Egil Kraggerud, Vergiliana. Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016, 363 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-20134-7.