Table Of ContentAntonio Ramírez de Verger
Book VI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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wissenschaftlicher Commentare
Antonio Ramírez de Verger
Book VI of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
A Textual Commentary
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optimo magistro et dvlcissimo amico
ORBA PARENTE SVO QUICVMQUE VOLVMINA TANGIS,
HIS SALTEM VESTRA DETVR IN VRBE LOCVS.
QVOQVE MAGIS FAVEAS, NON SVNT HAEC EDITA AB IPSO,
SED QVASI DE DOMINI FVNERE RAPTA SVI.
QVIDQVID IN HIS IGITVR VITII RVDE CARMEN HABEBIT,
EMENDATVRVS, SI LICVISSET, ERAT.
Ov. trist. 1.7.35–40
Acknowledgements
This commentary on book 6 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is based on a reading
of a substantial proportion of the manuscripts which have transmitted the
text and on a study of the editions that have established it and commented on
it from the editiones principes down to the present day. I have systematically
included the readings of the codices of ss. IX–XIII1, all the Spanish manu-
scripts, including the excerpta, and the Heinsii codices mei known to date
(B5EOO4 CGf4P8P9 O9 O12O15O17). Readings from other codices have
been included for the most important passages.
Unlike the commentaries of, for example, F. Bömer or the editors of the
Fondazione Valla, the approach centres on the text and the problems deriv-
ing from it, along the lines of N. Heinsius or P. Burman to name the two
most significant editors of Ovid. At the same time, I have endeavoured, as an
editio cum notis variorum, to recall the finest contributions by scholars from
R. Regius (1493) to the present day: Regius (1493, 1510), Naugerius (1516),
Ciofanus (15832), Bersman (15963), Heinsius (1659), Burman (1727), Gierig
(18042, 18072), Bothe (1818a and 1818b), Bach (1831 and 1836), Loers (1843),
Haupt (1853), Merkel (1850, 18782), Riese (1872, 18892), Edwards (1894),
Magnus (1914), Ehwald (1915), Slater (1927), Haupt-Ehwald-von Albre-
cht (1966), Bömer (1969–2006), Rosati (2009), Kenney (2011), Reed (2013),
Díez Reboso (2014), Suárez (2005), Fàbregas (2016) and Hardie (2016). Log-
ically, I have also included the contributions towards Ovid’s text by editors
and commentators in the course of their work on other Latin authors, such
as Gronovius (1611–1671), Bentley (1662–1742), Markland (1693–1776),
Madvig (1804–1886), Housman (1859–1936) and Shackleton Bailey (1917–
2005), to mention only a few. It goes without saying that the most recent
editions, commentaries, articles and reviews must also be added. Special
mention is warranted for the modern editions by Goold (19842), Anderson
(19915), and Tarrant (2004).
This volume has been produced as part of an ongoing project to publish
commentaries on all of the books of Ovid’s opus magnum, undertaken by the
Nicolaus Heinsius Research Group at the University of Huelva. The com-
mentaries for books XIII (Luis Rivero, De Gruyter 2018) and XV (Georg
Luck, Huelva 2017) have been published so far. It is envisaged that the
coming years will see the appearance of the remaining volumes.
I would like to express my deepest thanks to my fellow researchers in these
rewarding Ovidian labours over the years: Juan A. Estévez, Luis Rivero, José
Antonio Bellido, Samuel Díez Reboso, Pere Fàbregas, Juan Fernández Val-
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731781-201
VIII Acknowledgements
verde, Miriam Librán and Ángela Suárez del Río. I am greatly indebted to all
of them. It goes without saying that I have not forgotten my mentor, Prof.
Georg Luck, who revised a draft of this commentary before his death (2013).
It is no exaggeration to recall his constant affability and availability to all of
us. The errors, needless to say, are mine.
I would also like to thank J. J. Zoltowski for his translation of the book
from Spanish into English.
This edition with commentary has proved possible thanks to support from
a number of institutions in the form of various Research Projects, financed
by the Spanish Government (FFI2008-01843, FFI2013-42529), the Regional
Government of Andalucía (HUM-1019, HUM-4534) and the University of
Huelva (through its ‘Plan Propio de Investigación’ and the Huelva Univer-
sity Library).
Huelva, January 2021
Contents
Acknowledgements ............................................ VII
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
I. Manuscripts .............................................. 1
II. Editions ................................................. 21
Bibliography ................................................. 35
A textual Commentary ......................................... 61
I. Aracne in araneam (1–145) ................................. 68
II. Niobe in lapidem (146–312) ................................ 118
III. Lycii coloni (313–381) .................................... 178
IV. Marsyas in flumen (382–400) .............................. 201
V. Pelopis umerus in eburneum (401–411) ...................... 209
VI. Tereus, Procne et Philomela (412–674) ...................... 211
VII. Boreas et Orithyia (675–721) ............................. 304
Appendixes .................................................. 315
Readings of Manuscripts ..................................... 315
Readings of Editions ......................................... 351
Indexes ..................................................... 373
Select index of textual problems ............................... 373
Index locorum .............................................. 377
Index nominum ............................................. 413
