Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and Professor Emeritus at

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. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts. He served as the eighth

Kennedy Professor of Latin The Kennedy Professorship of Latin is the senior professorship of Latin at the University of Cambridge. In 1865, when Benjamin Hall Kennedy retired as headmaster of Shrewsbury School, his friends and former pupils created a fund with the intenti ...

Career

Reeve was educated at

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and went on to study at

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. He was appointed a lecturer at the

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and made a fellow of

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in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed

. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1984, he was elected

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. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties. On 12 February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana ( Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies. In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (''i.e.'' Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).

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

d. Tadeusz Maslowski, preface by M. D. Reeve D. or d. may refer to, usually as an abbreviation: * Don (honorific), a form of address in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and their former overseas empires, usually given to nobles or other individuals of high social rank. * Date of death, as an abbreviati ...

*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

References

Works Cited

*Hunter, R. and Oakley, S.P. (2015) ''Latin Literature and its Transmission'' (Cambridge) Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham 1943 births British Latinists Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Living people Kennedy Professors of Latin {{Authority control