This dense and ambitious book seeks to provide chapter-length surveys of Roman authors spanning from Plautus to the Historia Augusta. The collection contains fifteen papers (of 9 to 46pp.) that have been worked up from a colloquium held by the University of Barcelona in November 2013. The majority of chapters focus upon such ‘protohistories’, i.e. a work’s transmission from composition—or, commonly enough, incompletion—to the time of the earliest extant manuscripts in the direct tradition. The collection is a fertile plain for exploration, and there are some big beasts grazing: Fedeli on Propertius, Oakley on Livy, Tarrant on Horace, Kiss on Catullus, de Verger on Ovid. If you were minded to put together a first XI of author-focused philologists, you’d guarantee a good first day’s play. That said, the scope and originality of each chapter varies considerably, and the book’s primary utility is likely to be for text-specific consultation.