Description
Book SynopsisThis special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers. Published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus Manutius, the Aldine edition was the first printed edition of most of the thirty-six Greek letter collections that it contains. As such, it embodies the intersection between the medieval epistolary anthologies that predated it and the printed editions of Greek epistolographic collections that followed, which were primarily based on its text. In recent decades, the Aldien edition has been the subject of important works, which have sought to analyse its contents and sources. This issue explores the Aldine edition from three perspectives: its relationship to the epistolary collections found in medieval manuscripts, its relationship to the printed editions that followed it and its legacy and value for the modern scholar studying Ancient Greek epistolography.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction – Anna Tiziana Drago
Observations on the Text and the Lexicon on the Letters Attributed to Demosthenes – Felipe G. Hernández Muñoz
The Letters of Alciphron and Theophylact Simocatta – Anna Tiziana Drago
Philostratus in the Aldine Edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers – Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo
The letters of Phalaris, between Manuscripts and Editio Princeps – Émeline Marquis
The Principles of Selection and Arrangement of the Letters of Basil the Great in the Aldine Edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers – Antonia Sarri
Scipione Forteguerri (il Carteromaco) as Reader of the Aldine Greek Epistolographers: the Epistles of Phalaris – Vinko Hinz
