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"Steven J. Willett" a écrit :

> For those not familiar with the Mondadori Herodotus, each volume
> has a substantial introduction, full bibliography, numerous excellent
> maps (and often beautiful color plates), Greek text, Italian translation
> and commentary.  Only v. 7 is now misssing.  I might add that the
> Italian translation is more accurate to the Greek than anything
> currently available in English.  This edition, like Oxford's three-
> volume Odyssey commentary derived and expanded from the
> Mondadori, needs to be made available in English.

I agree with Prof Willett : the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla collection is a
very useful one. You have always a good text (with apparatus criticus under
— negative, as far I used it —), a good translation (with testimonia on the
same page), and a complete commentary which makes use of the more recent
bibliography. There is always an index nominum, (but, alas, only for the
names in the text, not these in the commentary) and sometimes maps. It is
one of the most useful, actually, at least for Plutarch and Orosius — I have
not seen the others).

Et deux signets (bookmarks) fixés sur la tranchefile pour passer du texte au
commentaire. Le luxe !


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Recteur Francois HINARD
Professeur en Sorbonne                RESPVE QVOD NON ES
francois.hinard@paris4.sorbonne.fr


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