Oldfather it was decided to prepare an edition, complete with introduction, variants, and notes, of the entire text, and not merely of the unpublished portion. The subsequent discovery of two additional manuscripts both delayed the work and increased its scope at the advice of Professor W. At that time both editors were instructors at Stanford University, and their friendship soon led to Mr Whitaker’s active collaboration in the preparation of the Latin text. Work on the remaining, and larger, portion of the Excidium Troiae was begun late in 1934. The first quarter of the Rawlinson manuscript was published in Speculum in October, 1934, together with a discussion of the mediaeval interrelationships of this version of the Troy story. He included a brief discussion of this text in his doctoral dissertation, which was presented during the same year. Holloway of the Bodleian Library he was able to determine that this manuscript contained a hitherto unpublished Latin version of the Trojan War, and to obtain an excellent photostatic copy of the entire text. The Bodleian manuscript ( Rawlinson D 893) first came to the attention of Mr Atwood in 1932, while he was a student at the University of Virginia.
This edition is based on three manuscripts (described in Section VIII of the Introduction), one of which is preserved in the Bodleian Library, the other two in the Laurentian and Riccardian Libraries in Florence. We are here presenting for the first time the complete text of the Excidium Troiae, a post-classical compendium of ancient history dealing with the downfall of Troy, the wanderings of Aeneas, and the early history of Rome. Literary Characteristics of the Excidium Troiae The Troy Story: Further Literary Relationships The Troy Story in the Excidium Troiae and the Problem of an ‘Enlarged Roman de Troie’
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