Scholia Vetera in Sophoclis "Oedipum Coloneum"

276 Pages·2018·1.572 MB·English

by  Georgios A. Xenis

Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Oedipum Coloneum
Sammlung griechischer
und lateinischer Grammatiker
(SGLG)
Herausgegeben von
Klaus Alpers · Ian C. Cunningham
Band 18
De Gruyter
Scholia vetera
in Sophoclis
Oedipum Coloneum
edited by
Georgios A. Xenis
De Gruyter
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Preface and Acknowledgements
This is the third volume of what is projected to be a new edition of the
scholia vetera to all seven of Sophocles’ surviving complete tragedies.
It is my purpose in this volume, as it was in its predecessors, the scholia
vetera to Electra and Trachiniae,1 to restore the scholia vetera to Oedi-
pus Coloneus in their earliest recoverable version and corpus. This
statement contains a number of key terms that are not explained here.
What is a version, what does it tell us about the nature of the transmis-
sion of scholia in general, and what are its implications for the editor?
What exactly do the earliest recoverable version and corpus represent,
and why is it desirable to seek to establish these rather than other ones?
By what methods can we gain access to this earliest version and corpus?
These questions as well as the principles that guide me in the constitu-
tion of the text are fundamental for a proper understanding of the char-
acter of this edition, but are thoroughly dealt with in the Introduction of
the Electra volume, and more specifically in the sections on ‘Editing
Scholia: Methodological considerations and the scope of the present
edition’, and on ‘The present edition’. Likewise, I do not repeat the de-
scription of the manuscripts and most of the previous editions nor do I
outline again the distinguishing features of each of the four versions in
which the scholia vetera to Oedipus Coloneus have come down to us:
the Laurentian and Roman versions are described in the Electra volume,
whereas the Triclinian and the a versions are described in the Trachi-
niae volume. What the Introduction of the present volume does is to
focus on issues that are specific to the new text: it engages with the
affiliation among the manuscripts of each version, the indirect tradition,
and most importantly, the last edition prepared by Vittorio De Marco in
1952, and offers supplementary material on the editio princeps by Janus
Lascaris.
It is a delightful task to acknowledge the debts I have incurred in
preparing this work. I have benefitted greatly from the support of two
1 The Electra volume was reviewed by Pat Easterling, Patrick Finglass, Tiziano
Dorandi and Andrea Cuomo; the Trachiniae volume by Pat Easterling, Patrick
Finglass and Tiziano Dorandi.
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institutions. The A.G. Leventis Foundation generously funded my work
for more than two years, thus supporting the appointment of a research
assistant. The University of Cyprus awarded several grants, which cov-
ered the expenses of my research trips to Oxford, Venice and Leiden. It
also granted a sabbatical in 2016, which enabled me to advance my
edition substantially.
I have also benefitted from the encouragement and help of several
colleagues and friends. Klaus Alpers and Ian C. Cunningham, the edi-
tors of SGLG, have always encouraged me in all my academic work
and, in particular, have fostered my project on the Sophoclean scholia
since its inception seven years ago. Robert Parker supplied information
on several questions related to religious practices mentioned in the text.
Georgi Parpulov translated a Russian article by Tadeusz Zieliński. Enrico
Magnelli, Paolo Scattolin, Timothy Janz, Stephanie Roussou, Chrysan-
thos Chrysanthou and Stefano Vecchiato helped in finding biblio-
graphical items. Rodia Rousou, my research assistant, was involved in a
variety of tasks, in which she provided invaluable help. At the press,
Katrin Hofmann and Florian Ruppenstein were, as always, very friendly
and very efficient. George A. Christodoulou kindly discussed several
passages of this text with me and put a number of his unpublished
conjectures at my disposal. The dedication of the book to him is a
recognition not only of the major role he has played in my academic
formation, since the beginning of my PhD two decades ago, but also of
the fact that for all these years he has served as a model of one of the
finest things in life, true friendship: ἄνευ γὰρ φίλων οὐδεὶς ἕλοιτ’ ἂν
ζῆν, ἔχων τὰ λοιπὰ ἀγαθὰ πάντα.
University of Cyprus, Nicosia Georgios A. Xenis
November 2017
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements ........................................................ VII
Sources and Bibliography
Sources ......................................................................................... XI
Bibliography ................................................................................ XV
Sigla ........................................................................................... XXI
Abbreviations ........................................................................... XXII
Introduction
1 The direct tradition ...................................................................... 3
1.1 Overview ............................................................................ 3
1.2 The interrelation of the witnesses ....................................... 6
2 The indirect tradition: the Suda ................................................. 19
3 Previous editions ....................................................................... 24
3.1 Janus Lascaris ................................................................... 24
3.2 Vittorio De Marco ............................................................ 26
Critical text
Hypotheses .................................................................................... 41
Scholia ........................................................................................... 49
Indices
Scriptores in scholiis laudati ........................................................ 241
Verba de quibus scholia agunt ..................................................... 243
Grammatica ................................................................................. 247
Rhetorica ..................................................................................... 249
Scaenica, ars tragica, histriones ................................................... 250
Nomina ........................................................................................ 251