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.

Career

Reeve was educated at

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and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. 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 Kennedy Professor of Latin at

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

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(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*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

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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