Ronchey, S. “L'Exegesis in canonem iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica. Saggio di edizione critica (acrostico - irmo dell'ode prima).” Aevum 59.2 (1985): 241-66.

A critical edition essai of Eustathius of Thessalonica’s Exegesis in canonem iambicum (acrostic and heirmos of ode 1): the critical text includes introductory remarks on the fortune of the work in the modern era and, in particular, a concluding methodological observation on the new challenges imposed on philologists by the peculiarities of the learned literature and, more generally, the Byzantine hochsprachliche Literatur. Both the constitutio textus and the apparatus fontium must, in fact, consider and account for the dense network of citations woven throughout the text.  These are almost never explicitly explained, but rather are for the most part hinted at, if not in fact hidden, in a constant game of virtuosity which almost seems intended to test the Byzantine reader’s and/or listener’s knowledge, as much as that of the modern editor.  In the introductory treatise to the critical essay, the author highlights, on the one hand, examples of many echoes – classical (Homer, Aristophanes, Pindar, Euripides etc.), biblical and patristic (Gregory of Nyssa, John of Damascus), and contemporary authors (Gregory of Corinth) – permeating the text, weaving sacred and profane culture, and exposing the complex, multiform nature of Eustathius’s “library.”  On the other hand, for the purposes of the textual ecdotics and in order to establish a correct organisation of the apparatus fontium, she underscores the need to isolate the intermediaries by which the classical, biblical, and patristic citations and echoes reached the author. In most cases, we should posit the mediation of hymns and liturgy for the religious, and for the classical the filter of collections, catalogues, etymologies, and lexicons, such as the Etymologicum Magnum and the Suidae Lexicon, which made up Eustathius’s “desktop.”

 

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REVIEWS

E. Follieri in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 79 (1986), p. 396.

 

EXTERNAL LINKS

http://archive.org/details/suidaelexicongr01suid (Suidae Lexicon online)