Among the almost 200 copies containing Plutus, the 23 fourteenth-century codices analysed in the book are the most ancient after the vetustiores and their collation has enabled the construction of a stemma codicum which effectively represents the Byzantine scholars' study environments and how they intersect. The identification of a Tzetzian study circle, which must have drawn from ancient sources, has led to an understanding of the nature of a large part of the fourteenth-century testimonies, thereby avoiding the generic explanation of contaminatio. This work makes further, interesting contributions through its recognition of the characteristics of the "Thoman" edition and identification of a link between Thessalonica and Constantinople, and also has the merit of having created greater clarity in the complex and as yet unstudied tradition of Plutus.
Book Title
I testimoni del XIV secolo del "Pluto" di Aristofane
Authors
Domenica Maria Cisterna
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-287-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-287-1
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-566-8
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297