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Mr David Butterfield

David Butterfield is the W.H.D. Rouse Research Fellow and a
Lector in Classics at Christ's College.

Contact:
Christ’s College,
Cambridge, CB2 3BU
Email: djb89@cam.ac.uk

 

Research interests
My primary areas of research are Latin literature (especially Lucretius), textual criticism, codicology and the history of Classical scholarship. My doctoral thesis (2007-) concerns the transmission of Lucretius’ de rerum natura up to the Carolingian period. I have recently edited a book concerning the Classical scholarship of A.E. Housman and am preparing a comprehensive Lucretian thesaurus emendationum. I am also the editor of the Housman Society Journal.

Major publications

Books
R. Shorrock & D.J. Butterfield (edd.), Penguin Latin Dictionary (London: Penguin, 2007; New York, 2008)
D.J. Butterfield & C.A. Stray (edd.), A.E. Housman The Scholar (forthcoming: London: Duckworth, 2009)

Articles

‘N.H. Romanes and the text of Lucretius’, ICS 31-2 (2006-7), 75-115

‘Emendations on the sixth book of Lucretius’, Eranos 104 (2006-7), 83-92

‘Lucretiana quaedam’, Phil. 152 (2008), 111-27

‘The poetic treatment of atque from Catullus to Juvenal’, Mnem. 61 (2008), 386-413

‘Sigmatic ecthlipsis in Lucretius’, Hermes 136 (2008), 188-205

‘Lucretiana nonnulla’, Ex. Class. 12 (2008), 2-23

‘On the avoidance of eius in Latin poetry’, RhM 151 (2008), 151-67

‘Ten Lucretian emendations’, Latomus 67 (2008), 634-42

‘Emendations on the fifth book of Lucretius’, MD 60 (2008), 177-89

‘Three Lucretian emendations’, AAntHung 48 (2008), 351-64

‘Supplementa Lucretiana’, Arctos 42 (2008), 17-30

‘One Lucretian emendation’, Inv. Luc. 30 (2008), 49-51

‘Six Lucretian emendations’, Hyperb. 14 (2008), 117-24

‘Housman on Metre and Prosody’, in Butterfield & Stray (2009) (q.v. supra), 117-37

‘Housman and W.M. Lindsay’, in Butterfield & Stray (2009) (q.v. supra), 193-216

‘Emendations on the fourth book of Lucretius’, WS 122 (2009), 109-19

‘Two Lucretian emendations’, Prom. 35 (2009), 81-9

‘Unidentified and misattributed verses in the Opus prosodiacum Miconis’, MH 66 (2009), 155-62

‘Emendations on the third book of Lucretius’, Euphr. 37 (2009), 309-16

‘Four Lucretian emendations’, CCJ [=PCPS] 55 (2009), 51-8

‘Housman’s Cambridge Lectures’, HSJ 35 (2009), 113-39

‘Nine Lucretian emendations’, Helm. 60 (2009), 211-20

‘Three unidentified verses in the Florilegium Sangallense’, Maia 61 (2009), 359-64

‘Five Lucretian emendations’, RFIC 137 (2009), 115-20

‘Seven Lucretian emendations’ (forthcoming in Eos 95 (2008))

‘Prop. IV 2,40: Vertumnus in the dust?’ (forthcoming in Eikasmos 20 (2009))

‘Emendations on the first book of Lucretius’ (forthcoming in ZA 59 (2009))

‘Three Catullan emendations’ (forthcoming in Emerita 77 (2009))

‘Lucretianum’ (forthcoming in Sileno 35 (2009))

‘Nine unidentified verses in the Exempla diuersorum auctorum’ (forthcoming in C&M 60 (2009))

‘Contemporary collectors: David Butterfield’ (forthcoming in Book Collector 57 (2009))

‘Emendations on the second book of Lucretius’ (forthcoming)

‘Eight Lucretian emendations’ (forthcoming)

‘Neo-Latin’ for J. Clackson (ed.), Blackwell Companion to the Latin Language (forthcoming; Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)

‘A Lucretian emendation’ (forthcoming)

‘Classical Scholarship, The History of’ for R. Bagnall et al. (edd.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (forthcoming; Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)

‘Gradus ad Parnassum’ for C. Stray (ed.), Classical Dictionaries (forthcoming; London: Duckworth, 2010)

‘Richard de Fournival and the Leiden MS of Propertius (VLO 38)’ (w/ S.J. Heyworth)

‘Lucretius and Classical Scholarship in the Eighteenth Century’

‘The mystery of Mrs Collison and the missing Lucretius’ (w/ M.F. Smith)

‘carmina musaeo critici permixta furore: Gilbert Wakefield’s Lucretius’


Latin verse compositions in:
D. Money, D. Verbeke and T. Deneire (edd.), Ramillies (Cambridge-Boston-Leuven: Bringfield's Head Press, 2006)
D. Money (ed.), Oudenarde (Cambridge: Bringfield’s Head Press, 2008)

Reviews

H. Nikitinski (ed.), David Ruhnkenius: Elogium Tiberii Hemsterhusii (Leipzig: Teubner, 2006), BMCR 2007.05.34

A. Burnett (ed.), The Letters of A.E. Housman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), BMCR 2007.08.40

A.S. Hollis, Fragments of Roman Poetry c. 60 B.C. – A.D. 20 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), BMCR 2007.12.30

N. Baechle, Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter (Lanham: Lexington, 2007), CR 58 (2008), 350-2

J.M. Trappes-Lomax, Catullus: A Textual Reappraisal (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2007), CR 59 (2009), 117-20

S.J. Heyworth (ed.), Sexti Properti Elegi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), JRS 99 (2009), 261-2

S. Gillespie & P. Hardie (edd.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) (forthcoming in Latomus 68 (2009))