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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.

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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] On 12 February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies.[4][5]

Reeve was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography in 2011-2012 speaking on "Printing the Latin Classics."

In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).[6]

Selected publications

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  • 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[7]
  • Reeve, Michael D. (2021). The Transmission of Pliny's Natural History. Sussidi Eruditi, 101. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. ISBN 9788893595582.

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Works cited

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  • Hunter, R. and Oakley, S. P. (2015) Latin Literature and its Transmission (Cambridge)
Academic offices
Preceded by Kennedy Professor of Latin Cambridge University
1984–2006 		Succeeded by
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