Event

This talk is a report from the field on two experiments in editing conducted with recent classes at Penn. The first took a pragmatic approach and produced a mockup of a variorum edition of (some of) Tacitus' Annals; this was part of a graduate seminar. The second, which involved an undergraduate research assistant, a class of Postbacs, and graduate students in LATN 540, adopted a purist approach and produced a text and apparatus for (some of) the Bellum Alexandrinum, a work by an unknown author preserved in the corpus of Caesar's Bella. The pros and cons of each method will be weighed. I will conclude with some reflections on involving students in textual criticism.