Auteur(s) : R.A. MCNEAL (Solvang, USA)
Titre : On Editing Herodotus
Revue : L’Antiquité Classique
Volume : 52
Date : 1983
Pages : 110-129

Abstract:
This article advocates the use of the oldest and best manuscript of Herodotus (Laurentianus 70.3) as a base text. The editor’s primary object should be an accurate recording of the paradosis rather than a search, by way of the methods of Lachmann, for an ideal archetype, or for Herodotus’ autograph. The apparatus criticus is the proper place for most citations from other manuscripts or for emendations and corrections. The text of Laur. 70.3 itself should be modified only to repair obvious mistakes.