Opuscula de rebus mirabilibus et de longaevis

von Phlegon <Trallianus>

156 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
• ISBN: 9783110245974
• Sprache: Griechisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2010
• Genre: Geschichte/Altertum
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Herausgegeben von: Antonio Stramaglia