Michael Reeve Explained

Michael Reeve
Honorific Suffix:	FBA
Birth Date:	1943 1, df=y
Education:	Balliol College, Oxford
Discipline:	Classics
Sub Discipline:	Textual criticism
Workplaces:	Exeter College, Oxford Pembroke College, Cambridge

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.

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.^[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

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

Works cited

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

Notes and References

1. Hunter and Oakley (2015) xiii-xiv.
2. Web site: Professor Michael Reeve. classics.cam.ac.uk. 5 September 2013 . 11 June 2019.
3. Web site: Professor Michael Reeve FBA. thebritishacademy.ac.uk. 11 June 2019.
4. Web site: Studi greci e latini. 29 April 2021. Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana. it-IT.
5. See also Organi direttivi ed elenco degli Accademici, in Stefano Costa - Federico Gallo (eds.), Miscellanea Graecolatina IV, Milano - Roma 2017 (Ambrosiana Graecolatina, 6), p. 518.
6. Web site: Reeve, Michael D. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. 29 April 2021. www.lincei.it. it.
7. Reeve (M.D.) Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission.. The Classical Review. Stansbury. Mark. October 2014 . 64. 2 . 479–81. 10.1017/S0009840X1400047X . 164025102 .