It has been ten years since the fourth edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary(OCD)was published.There are five contributors to the Cicero entry(pp.1514-1519):J.P.V.D.Balsdon,M.T.Griffin(both for the"Life"...It has been ten years since the fourth edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary(OCD)was published.There are five contributors to the Cicero entry(pp.1514-1519):J.P.V.D.Balsdon,M.T.Griffin(both for the"Life"part);J.G.F.Powell(sections"Speeches,""Works on rhetoric,""Poem,"and "Letters,"in the "Works"part);J.H.Simon and D.Obbink("Philosophica"section in the "Works"part).Although the first four scholars,especially Professor Griffin and Professor Powell,are among those to whom all earnest readers of Cicero nowadays are certainly grateful and would like to show respect,it seems to me that they did not provide as perfect contributions as Cicero himself might have wished for.As for Obbink,he is more an expert on the Stoic Philodemus and papyrology than on Cicero the philosopher.The following remarks will provide some corrigenda to their OCD entry.展开更多
文摘It has been ten years since the fourth edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary(OCD)was published.There are five contributors to the Cicero entry(pp.1514-1519):J.P.V.D.Balsdon,M.T.Griffin(both for the"Life"part);J.G.F.Powell(sections"Speeches,""Works on rhetoric,""Poem,"and "Letters,"in the "Works"part);J.H.Simon and D.Obbink("Philosophica"section in the "Works"part).Although the first four scholars,especially Professor Griffin and Professor Powell,are among those to whom all earnest readers of Cicero nowadays are certainly grateful and would like to show respect,it seems to me that they did not provide as perfect contributions as Cicero himself might have wished for.As for Obbink,he is more an expert on the Stoic Philodemus and papyrology than on Cicero the philosopher.The following remarks will provide some corrigenda to their OCD entry.
