A Textual Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV

163 Pages·2017·2.127 MB·English

by  Georg Luck

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PREFACE ................................................................................................................... 9
COMMENTARY ........................................................................................................ 17
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................ 157
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FOREWORD

I will never forget that day in July 2006 at the Baltimore train station.
My family (Pura, Antonio, and Javi) and I were returning to the Princeton
Institute for Advanced Studies. We had enjoyed the generous hospitality of
Harriet and Georg for a few unforgettable days. While we were waiting for
the departure of the Amtrak, I dared to ask Georg whether he would be
interested in taking part in the research project that had begun in Huelva on
the text of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pura still remembers how his face lit up
and how, as excited as a child, he replied that he would be delighted to be
a member of the team project. Without a moment's hesitation, I asked him
the second question regarding which book he would like to work on. And
without losing a beat, he fired back: book XV. I was astounded that he, a
first-rate scholar, thanked me for having offered him a part in the project,
when it was I who was really surprised and grateful that such a master would
become an equal of those of us who, in Huelva, felt ourselves to be, to a
greater or lesser extent, his disciples.
Several years later, after exchanging research material and multiple
letters, he sent me a draft of his commentary on book XV. He had no time
to polish it. Fate took Georg on the day of February 2013 on his eighty-seven
birthday. I have preserved the manuscript these past few years among doubts
about whether his manuscript should either be improved with specific data
of manuscripts and editions or be left as is. This summer of 2017, I have
decided to conserve the original version, albeit slightly corrected and with
the addition of a select bibliography. The peace and tranquility that can be
breathed in the Dehesilla de las Monjas (Barcarrota, Badajoz) have helped me
to leave the original ready for printing.
Georg Luck's commentary is the first of the project to be released on
the presses. Previously, doc!oral theses have been developed on textual
commentaries of books III (Angela Suarez del Rio), VII (Elena Murcia), X
(Pere Fabregas) and XI (Samuel Diez Reboso). The commentaries of books
VI (Antonio Ramirez de Verger) and XIII (Luis Rivero Garcia) are almost
finished. Books II (Jose Antonio Bellido Diaz), IV (Juan Fernandez Valverde)
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and XII (Juan Antonio Estevez Sola) are to follow soon. The commentaries of
books I (Juan Martos), V (Domingo Fernandez Sanz), VIII (Beatrice Larosa),
IX and XIV (Jose Solis de los Santos) will appear, I hope, a little later.
I would like to express my gratitude ex imo corde to Harriet Luck for au
thorizing the publication of Georg Luck's commentary in Huelva University
Press (Annexes of Exemplaria Classica).
The publication of G. Luck's Commentary is presented at the Ovid Sym
posium, held in Huelva (5-6 October, 2017), as an act of pietas towards one
of the best Ovidians of the twentieth century.
Antonio Ramirez de Verger
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PREFACE