Leighton Durham Reynolds(1930–1999) was a BritishLatinistwho is best known for his work ontextual criticism. He spent his teaching career atBrasenose College, Oxford(pictured), where he published the most commonly cited edition ofSeneca the Younger'sLetters. The central academic achievement of his career was his monographThe Medieval Tradition of Seneca's Letters(1965), in which he reconstructed how the text was transmitted through theMiddle Ages.
He also wrote critical editions of Seneca's
Dialogues, the works of the historianSallust, andCicero'sDe finibus bonorum et malorum. In 1968, Reynolds and his Oxford colleagueNigel Wilsonco-authored a well-received introduction to textual criticism. Writing about the set of critical editions authored by Reynolds, the LatinistMichael Reevestated 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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