Mervin R. Dilts

Mervin R. Dilts
OccupationClassical scholar
Academic background
Education
Alma materIndiana University
ThesisThe Manuscript Tradition of Aelian’s Varia Historia and Heraclides’ Politiae with a Text of Heraclides (1964)
Aubrey Diller
Academic work
Institutions

Mervin Robert Dilts (born 26 February 1938) is an American classical scholar and emeritus professor at New York University.

Biography

Born in Flemington, New Jersey, Dilts studied at Gettysburg College (BA, 1960) and at Indiana University Bloomington (MA, 1961; PhD, 1964), where he was advised by Aubrey Diller.[1] He was assistant professor at Knox College and in 1965 moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he worked with Alexander Turyn and, later, with Miroslav Marcovich. In 1969, he was promoted to associate professor. From 1971 to 1979 he was a financial trustee of the American Philological Association.[2]

In 1979, Dilts became professor in classics at New York University, where he taught until his retirement. He is currently emeritus professor at NYU and Murray Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford,[3] where he patrons the Dilts-Lyell Research Fellowship in Greek Palaeography.[2]

Research activity

Dilts is primarily a textual critic, with special focus on Ancient Greek orators. He defended a dissertation on the manuscript tradition of Aelian's Varia Historia and Heraclides Lembus' Politiae,[4] publishing the latter in 1971[5] and, in 1974, the former in the renowned Bibliotheca Teubneriana.[6] Dilts published four further Teubner editions, being the two-volume scholia on Demosthenes,[7] the scholia on Aeschines,[8] and the critical edition of his speeches[9] — in the latter case, completing a line of research started by his former advisor Diller.[10]

In the 2000s, his four-volume critical edition of Demosthenes' speeches appeared in the Oxford Classical Texts,[11] followed, in 2018, by the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides.[12]

Publications

  • Aelianus, Cl. (1974). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Varia Historia. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.[13]
  • Aeschines (1997). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Orationes. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Stuttgart – Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. doi:10.1515/9783110953916. ISBN 978-3-598-71009-4.[14]
  • Antiphon; Andocides (2018). Dilts, M. R.; Murphy, D. J. (eds.). Orationes. OCT. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780199605477.[15]
  • Demosthenes (2002). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Orationes. OCT. Vol. I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198721680.[16]
  • Demosthenes (2005). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Orationes. OCT. Vol. II. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198721697.[17]
  • Demosthenes (2007). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Orationes. OCT. Vol. III. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198721703.[18]
  • Demosthenes (2010). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Orationes. OCT. Vol. IV. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198721710.[19]
  • Dilts, M. R. (1964). The Manuscript Tradition of Aelian's Varia Historia and Heraclides' Politiae with a Text of Heraclides. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms Inc. — Dissertation.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1965a). "Krumbacher on George Pisides". Byzantion. 35 (2): 612. JSTOR 44170161.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1965b). "The Manuscript Tradition of Aelian's Varia Historia and Heraclides' Politiae". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 96: 57–72. doi:10.2307/283718. JSTOR 283718.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1968). "A Fragment of Plutarch's Parallela Minora in Vatic. gr. 141". Scriptorium. 22 (2): 271. doi:10.3406/scrip.1968.3333.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1971). "The Manuscripts of Appian's Historia Romana". Revue d'Histoire des Textes. 1 (1971): 49–71. doi:10.3406/rht.1971.1770.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1974). "Demosthenic Scholia in Codex Laurentianus 59, 9". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 104: 97–102. doi:10.2307/2936082. JSTOR 2936082.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1975). "The Manuscript Tradition of the Scholia Ulpiani on Demosthenis in Timocratem". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 105: 35–50. doi:10.2307/283932. JSTOR 283932.
  • Dilts, M. R. (1979a). "Notes on Demosthenic MSS. Containing Scholia". Prometheus. 5 (3): 256–66. doi:10.14601/prometheus-19846 (inactive 2026-04-23).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2026 (link)
  • Dilts, M. R. (1979b). "Manuscripts of Scholia Ulpiani on Demosthenes, Orations 1, 3 and 4". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 20 (1): 55–67.
  • Dilts, M. R., ed. (1983). Scholia Demosthenica. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Vol. I. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. ISBN 978-3-322-00274-7.[20]
  • Dilts, M. R., ed. (1986). Scholia Demosthenica. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Vol. II. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. doi:10.1515/9783110949803. ISBN 978-3-598-71259-3.
  • Dilts, M. R., ed. (1992). Scholia in Aeschinem. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Stuttgart – Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. doi:10.1515/9783110953909. ISBN 978-3-11-095390-9.[21]
  • Dilts, M. R. (1994). "Hiatus in the Orations of Aeschines". The American Journal of Philology. 115 (3): 367–73. doi:10.2307/295364. JSTOR 295364.
  • Dilts, M. R.; Kennedy, G. A., eds. (1997). Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 168. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 9789004107281.
  • Dilts, M. R.; Sosower, M. L.; Manfredi, A., eds. (1998). Librorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae index a Nicolao De Maioranis compositus et Fausto Saboeo collatus anno 1533. Studi e Testi, 384. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. ISBN 8821006840.
  • Heraclides Lembus (1971). Dilts, M. R. (ed.). Excerpta Politiarum. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monographs, 5. Durham (NC): Duke University.[22]

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