Michael Reeve


Michael David Reeve FBA 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 was the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.

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.
In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties. In February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies.
Reeve was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography in 2011-2012 speaking on "Printing the Latin Classics."
In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Selected publications

  • Longus, Daphnis et Chloe, Leipzig, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1982, 1986; 3rd ed. München – Leipzig, K. G. Saur
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 7: Oratio Pro P. Quinctio, Stuttgart – Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1992
  • Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 2004
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis Scripta quae manserunt omnia, 24: Oratio de provinciis consularibus; Oratio pro L. Cornelio Balbo, Berlin – New York, W. De Gruyter, 2007
  • 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, 2011

    Works cited

  • Hunter, R. and Oakley, S. P. Latin Literature and its Transmission
Category:Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics
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Category:British Latinists
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Category:Kennedy Professors of Latin