Michael Reeve

Michael David Reeve FBA (January 11, 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.  He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin and is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.  In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. 

Career
After graduating from King Edward's School, Birmingham in 1960, Reeve studied at Balliol College, Oxford.  He then gained a lecturership at the University of Oxford and a fellowship at Exeter College in 1966.  He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University.  In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties. 

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

References

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

Category:Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics
Category:People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham
Category:1943 births
Category:Latinists
Category:Fellows of the British Academy
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