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Theodore Metochites’ Sententious Notes
Staffan Wahlgren
2018
ISSN: 2002-2131 Kriterium (Online)
This volume contains a critical edition, with an English translation and notes, of 20 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai ("Sententious notes") of the Byzantine statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332).
The introduction gives an extensive, partly new, description and assessment of the manuscripts as physical objects and in their relationship to each other. The manuscripts discussed, and used in the edition, are the Par. gr. 2003 (P) and Marc. gr. 532 (M), both of the fourteenth century, and, wherever M is illegible, the Scor. gr. 248 (E), a sixteenth-century copy of M. In the edition, the reading of P (including the corrections by the main copyist, Michael Klostomalles, as well as a manus secunda) is generally adopted as the authoritative text.
The volume concludes with a bibliography, an index of passages, and an index of names.
The discussion in the essays touches upon several subjects, more or less related to each other. Among these are the ignorance of man and the difficulty to know anything, and the moral side of seeking an active life as opposed to "living hidden".
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Denna volym innehåller en kritisk edition, en engelsk översättning och kommentarer till 20 essäer av den bysantinske statsmannen Theodoros Metochites (1270-1332).
Inledningen ger en omfattande, delvis ny analys av handskrifterna (Parisinus gr. 2003, Marcianus gr. 532 och Scorialensis gr. 248), och boken avslutas med en bibliografi och indices.
I essäerna diskuterar Metochites en mångfald av teman som mer eller mindre verkar hänga ihop och bilda en helhet. Bland dessa kan nämnas människans okunnighet och moralen i ett aktivt liv i stället för att "leva i det fördolda".
Utgivaren: Staffan Wahlgren (f. 1965) är professor i klassisk filologi vid Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet i Trondheim. Han har i sin forskning speciellt intresserat sig för det grekiska skriftspråkets dynamik i antiken och Bysans liksom för editionsfilologi och Digital Humanities.
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Keywords
- "Live hidden"
- Byzantium
- Changes of fortune
- Classical texts
- Ethics & moral philosophy
- Humanities
- literary essays
- Literature & literary studies
- Live hidden
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Prose: non-fiction
- Sceptical philosophy
- The ignorance of man
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNL Literary essays
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy
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DOI: 10.21524/kriterium.5web: http://www.kriterium.se/site/books/10.21524/kriterium.5/
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