Opuscula de rebus mirabilibus et de longaevis PDF
by Phlegon <Trallianus>
Edited by Antonio Stramaglia
Part of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana series
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Phlegon of Tralles, a learned freedman of Hadrian’s, was a prolific writer, but only two of his works have – though not entirely – survived: Peri thaumasion (‘On marvellous things’) and Peri makrobion (‘On long-lived persons’).
The former is probably the main extant paradoxographic collection from classical antiquity, mostly famous for some memorable ghost stories (one of which inspired Goethe); the latter reviews long-lived individuals from both archival and literary sources.
Both are extensively interespersed with oracles, Sibylline and others.
These works were hitherto available in unsatisfactory editions.
Stramaglia’s new edition relies on a fresh, meticulous collation of the codex unicus (Heidelberg, Palat.
Gr. 398); takes complete account of scholarship from the editio princeps (1568) onwards; establishes the text according to a sounder evaluation of Phlegon’s language and style; and includes not only a detailed apparatus criticus, but also – for the first time – an apparatus auxiliarius providing loci similes vel paralleli, as well as close bibliographical references and elucidations of obscure or abstruse passages.
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- Pages:156 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:23/12/2010
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:156 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:23/12/2010
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- ISBN:9783110239058