Theodore Metochites on Ancient Authors and Philosophy. Semeioseis gnomikai 1–26 & 71. A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes. With a Contribution by Börje Bydén

• The book contains a critical edition of 27 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai, a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). The edition is planned to appear in four volumes altogether. The book is divided into three parts, (1) an introduction, (2) the edition of the Greek text, with English translation and notes, (3) an essay by Börje Bydén. Also included are a bibliography, an index of passages from ancient authors, and indexes of Greek words and names. The introduction presents the three manuscripts used for the edition, Par. gr. 2003, Marc. gr. 532 (both of the early fourteenth century), and Scor. gr. 248, a sixteenth-century copy of the latter. This edition is the first critical edition of the text, meant to replace the 1821 edition by C. G. Müller and Th. Kiessling, which was based on an inferior manuscript. In the concluding essay, Börje Bydén examines a number of relevant passages in order to form a clearer picture of how the nature and purpose of the Semeioseis gnomikai may have been defined by Metochites and his contemporary audience.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Idé- och lärdomshistoria (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- History of Ideas (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

Keyword

rhetoric

literary style

genre

essay

irony

philosophy

classical authors

Plato

Aristotle

Plutarch

Dio

Synesius

Xenophon

Philo

Josephus

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