L. D. Reynolds
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Leighton Durham Reynolds was a British Latinist who was known for his work on textual criticism. Spending his entire teaching career at Brasenose College, Oxford, he prepared the most commonly cited e
Brasenose College, Oxford, where Reynolds served as a fellow and tutor in Classics from 1957 to 1996
The beginning of Letter 1 from Seneca the Younger's Letters in a manuscript illuminated by Robert Boyvin (c. 1500)
Reynolds and Wilson co-authored a book on the medieval transmission of classical texts. This anonymous picture from the 12th-century shows a scribe at his desk and is housed at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Classics
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Classics, also known as classical studies or ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of ancient Greek and
Homer, the legendary Greek author of the Iliad and Odyssey
Cicero, the Roman statesman considered the master of Latin prose
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and polymath who shaped Western science for centuries
Virgil, usually considered to be the greatest Roman poet