Forthcoming Work in Classics

Note: This is rather out of date, and will be revised as I procure the necessary information. Please let me know of anything that should be added or deleted.

It seems useful for scholars to know what others are working on, particularly when the projects are long-term. I hope this list will help to discourage wasted effort and encourage cooperation among those who are working along the same lines or on related subjects and may not know it. It is confined to editions and commentaries, since these are more interchangeable than interpretative works. That is neither a compliment nor a criticism, but a statement of fact: two apparatus critici or line-by-line commentaries on the same work will inevitably overlap to a very large extent, at least if they are competently done, while two interpretations may easily have nothing at all in common. It is therefore unfortunate that some of Ovid’s Heroides, to take one example, have received as many as three commentaries in the last decade or so, while others (4 and 8) have gone more than a century without one. Similar lists of historical, archeological, and other non-literary works would also be useful, but these are far outside my area of expertise, and I have no plans to add them any time soon: others are welcome to do so. On the other hand, I do include translations, especially if they are annotated.

I estimate that a complete list (whatever exactly that means) would be two to four times larger than the one printed here. I will be contacting publishers and series editors to fill in the gaps, and hope to add more over the next few months. However, additions and corrections from readers are more than welcome. Please send them to: curculio@earthlink.net. It would be best if these came from the authors themselves or (perhaps even better) from representatives of the various presses. Please do not pass on rumors about what others may or may not be working on, or lay claim to some project yourself unless you are fairly certain that you will finish it — assuming a normal lifespan, of course. Most of the current information is from representatives of the presses, references to forthcoming works in books and articles, and from the web-pages of the various authors’ universities.

In the publisher column, ‘(?)’ means that I have no information, while ‘——’ means that the author has specifically informed me that no definite arrangements have been made. No negative conclusions should be drawn from the latter: in at least one case, more than one publisher is interested. I have included commentaries being written for dissertations (‘diss’), as long as I am assured that they will be published in book form in the relatively near future.

Some of the Cambridge ‘green-and-golds’ are too far from production for the editors to be publicized, so I have listed them with the author as ‘——’. This indicates that Cambridge has someone working on the text, though it may be a long way from complete, and it is not certain that the work will be completed.