In the preface to this excellent new volume, James Zetzel, Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, presents his work as a ‘Roman’ counterpart to Eleanor Dickey’s 2007 Ancient Greek Scholarship, in which he covers the entire period from 200 B.C. until 800 A.D. Recognizing that the term ‘philology’ has a very broad coverage, Zetzel states that “every work to be discussed falls under one broad rubric: they all aim to explain something about Latin texts or the Latin language; they are all, in some sense, aids to readers” (p. 3). The large audience for Zetzel’s book thus includes historians of grammar and linguistics, and it is with this specific readership in mind that it will here be discussed.

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