Leighton Durham Reynolds (1930–1999) was a British Latinist who is best known for his work on textual criticism. He spent his teaching career at Brasenose College, Oxford (pictured), where he wrote the most commonly cited edition of Seneca the Younger's Letters. The central academic achievement of his career was his monograph The Medieval Tradition of Seneca's Letters (1965), in which he reconstructed how the text was transmitted through the Middle Ages. He also wrote critical editions of Seneca's Dialogues, the works of the historian Sallust, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. In 1968, Reynolds and his Oxford colleague Nigel Wilson co-authored a well-received introduction to textual criticism. Writing about the set of critical editions authored by Reynolds, the Latinist Michael Reeve stated that Reynolds's scholarship "cut through dozens of manuscripts to the serviceable core". When published, his work on Seneca was considered by some commentators to be difficult to surpass.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1889:
Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, while the country was proclaimed a republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_and_fall_of_Pedro_II_of_Brazil
1922:
Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Time
1943:
The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide
1988:
The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
unwearied: 1. Not wearied, not tired. 2. Never tiring; tireless. 3. Not stopping; persistent, relentless. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwearied
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. --Marianne Moore https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Moore