The first chapter, presenting a revised version of a paper available on Kaster’s Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics site, leads to a more secure understanding of the medieval transmission of the Saturnalia. Anyone interested in Kaster’s new text will need to consult these studies. The tome is a model of concision and clarity, whose brisk style lightens the load of this technical material. However disconcerting that revelation, we must be grateful to Kaster for setting things straight, and no less grateful for the new Loeb and forthcoming OCT editions of the Saturnalia, to which the present volume of textual studies stands as a sturdy companion. A brief and engaging preface to Kaster’s Studies on the Text of Macrobius’ Saturnalia unveils just how wrong that assumption was.
1 After Nino Marinone’s bilingual edition of the Saturnalia 2 introduced numerous improvements to the text and after two revisions to the Teubner appeared, it was reasonable to assume that little editorial work remained to be done. When James Willis’ Teubner edition of Macrobius first appeared, reviewers criticized, severely but justifiably, various aspects of its editorial foundation even while acknowledging (as, for example, Marshall did) that Willis’ text itself was reasonably sound.
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