Mira varietas lectionum

Raffaella Cantore; Fjodor Montemurro; Chiara Telesca

doi:10.6093/978-88-31309-14-1

Mira varietas lectionum

Authors

Raffaella Cantore

University of Ferrara

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2590-464X

Fjodor Montemurro

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4013-8819

Chiara Telesca

Universität Innsbruck

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5560-0407

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-31309-14-1

Keywords:

Tradition of latin and greek texts, Fortune and reception of ancient texts, Classical philology, Latin literature, Greek literature

Synopsis

Series: Akribos anaginoskein, 2

Pages: XII + 322

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28031

Abstract: From the 17th century philology, the formula mira varietas lectionum refers to the extraordinary quantity of readings in the tradition of ancient texts; the adjective mirus expresses both the excessive proliferation of readings and, in a more positive sense, the paramount acquisition of knowledge about history and transmission of texts. The study of the mira varietas is a fundamental instrument for editing texts, tracing their circulation in antiquity, inquiring their fortune and reception and finally considering how they are reinterpreted in the modern scholarship.The miscellany, devoted to this methodological approach, collects works focused on the idea of philology stands primarly as critical and attentive study of the textual tradition which aims to shed light on the past and stimulate the progress of our knowledge. The volume includes twelve essays covering all areas of philological studies: direct tradition, with particular attention to Byzantine manuscripts as testimonia of exegetical and ecdotic works of ancient philologists, indirect transmission, and literary analysis aimed at exploring new possible interpretations of ancient texts according to an intertextual approach.

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Author Biographies

Raffaella Cantore, University of Ferrara

Raffaella Cantore is adjunct professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Ferrara. Her research interests focus on the manuscript tradition of Herodotus' text and on Greek lexicography.

Fjodor Montemurro

Fjodor Montemurro is professor of literature at the Liceo Tarantino in Gravina di Puglia and is president of Dante Alighieri in Matera. His research interests focus on Greek comedy and tragedy.

Chiara Telesca, Universität Innsbruck

Chiara Telesca is Post-Doc researcher at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Her research interests focus on the School of Gaza and on the rhetoric of the imperial and late periods.