Asterisks and Obelisks
Colin Burrow, 7 March 2019
Poems of Sextus Propertius
edited and translated by Patrick Worsnip.
Carcanet, 253 pp., £12.99, September 2018,978 1 78410 651 5 Show More
edited and translated by Patrick Worsnip.
Carcanet, 253 pp., £12.99, September 2018,
“... The radical and impressive Oxford Classical Texts edition of 2007 by Stephen Heyworth, on which Patrick Worsnip bases his new translation, is bedecked with dots, crosses in circles, lacunae, and brackets both square and pointy. Textual notes rise up the page as a great wave of scholars – Lachmann, Housman, Heinsius, Scaliger – do battle for sense ... ”
