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‘Aeschylus in Byzantium’, in R. Kennedy (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus, Leiden; Boston: Brill 2017, 179-202.

Aeschylus was rather less known in Byzantium than Euripides and Sophocles, but was nonetheless read at schools and there survive several references, citations and allusions in a variety of texts. A selection of three plays, Prometheus Vinctus, Septem contra Thebas, and Persae, the so-called ‘Byzantine triad’, is found in many more manuscripts than the rest, often with marginal commentaries for school use. The manuscript transmission is not good for the rest of the plays and there are cases where it is impossible to recover what Aeschylus wrote. There are also a number of variant readings that are difficult to evaluate, and it is unclear if these are ancient or simply the conjectures of Byzantine scholars. Modern scholars sometimes allow for two incompatible views: a very limited number of independent witnesses throughout Byzantium and, at the same time, a significant number of variant readings which they do not assign to Byzantine scholars. Demetrius Triclinius (fourteenth century) was the leading Byzantine scholar on Greek tragedy and made an original and lasting contribution to the textual criticism of Aeschylus. Some early Church Fathers (e.g., St Basil, Theodoret of Cyrus) refer positively to Aeschylus’ grandiloquence, while later Byzantine scholars (Michael Psellus, John Tzetzes) consider Aeschylus difficult and obscure. Psellus (eleventh century) anticipated some of the arguments used recently to challenge the authenticity of Prometheus. Eustathius of Thessalonica (twelfth century) is the first to report that the Byzantine political verse was thought to be similar to some trochaic tetrameter catalectics found in Persae. Several Byzantine authors, mostly from the twelfth century, cite or allude to Aeschylean lines. Such allusions are usually linguistic borrowings intended to impress a learned audience and they are not meaningful in an intertextual way. Some Aeschylean phrases also became proverbial (sometimes already in Late Antiquity) and occur in several Byzantine authors.

D. Calma, E. King (eds), The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio on Proclus’ Elements of Theology

2021

Moosburg on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present a coherent account of the Platonic tradition as such (unified through the concord of Proclus and Dionysius) and at the same time to consolidate and transform a legacy of metaphysics developed in the German-speaking lands by Peripatetic authors (like Albert the Great, Ulrich of Strassburg, and Dietrich of Freiberg). This volume aims to provide a basis for further research and discussion of this unduly overlooked commentary, whose historical-philosophical importance as an attempt to refound Western metaphysics is beginning to be recognized.

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