The Original Verses of Apollodorus' 'Chronica': Edition, Translation and Commentary on the First Iambic Didactic Poem in the Light of New Evidence

308 Pages·2020·11.867 MB·English

by  Kilian Fleischer

Kilian Fleischer
The Original Verses of Apollodorus’ Chronica
Sozomena
Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts
Edited
on behalf of the Herculaneum Society
by
Alessandro Barchiesi, Robert Fowler, Dirk Obbink
and Nigel Wilson
Volume 19
Kilian Fleischer
The Original Verses
of Apollodorus’
Chronica
Edition, Translation and Commentary on the First
Iambic Didactic Poem in the Light of New Evidence
ISBN 978-3-11-070338-2
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-070372-6
ISSN 1869-6368
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Carla Maria Fleischer

Contents
Praefatio | X
Part 1: Introduction 

1 Overview of this monograph: motivation, scope and structure | 3

2 The biography of Apollodorus of Athens | 7
2.1 State of the art – Sources and evidence from the Chronica | 7

2.2 Echoes of Apollodorus’ biography in the original verses of the
Chronica? | 13

2.3 A new reading: Apollodorus as Philo of Larissa’s teacher in Athens

(120–118 BC) | 16

2.4 Did Pseudo-Scymnus know Apollodorus personally or might they

even be the same person? | 22

2.5 Overview of Apollodorus’ biography and works | 23
3 Apollodorus’ Chronica – Content, reception, book division, publication

date(s), dedication | 25
3.1 Content of the Chronica | 25

3.2 Apollodorus’ method and sources | 26
3.3 The Chronica – model(s) and afterlife | 27
3.4 Book division of the Chronica and the 4th book | 32

3.5 In what year did the 3rd book end and the 4th book begin? | 33
3.6 The end date of the 4th book of the Chronica – a tricky question with

certain consequences | 40
3.7 Attalus II as addressee of the Chronica (books 1–3) and the

Attalids-Academy connection | 52

3.8 Addressee and character of the 4th book | 56
3.9 Overview of the Chronica | 58
4 The Chronica as the first iambic didactic poem – innovation, metrical

analysis, vocabulary and style, reception | 60

4.1 Apollodorus as the inventor of the iambic didactic poem – the birth

of a new “subgenre” | 60

4.2 The comic trimeter – metrical analysis of the preserved

verses | 65
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4.3 Lexical and stylistic features of the verses | 86
4.4 Iambic didactic poems after the Chronica and their influence on

literature | 90
4.5 Overview of the “Chronica as didactic poem” | 93

5 The 109 original verses with new readings: History of the Academy and

various other topics | 95

5.1 Sources of the verses and general content | 95
5.2 The 87 verses on the Academy in the Index Academicorum –

structure and content | 96
5.3 The 87 verses on the Academy in the Index Academicorum – much

unique information | 101
5.4 The 87 verses on the Academy in the Index Academicorum reedited

(21–107) – What’s new? | 102

5.5 The personal names, ethnica and places mentioned in the

preserved verses | 104
Part 2: Edition with translation and commentary 

6 Preface to the edition | 111

6.1 Arrangement of the 109 verses, apparatus and translation | 111

6.2 Criteria for including verses in the collection | 112
6.3 The new edition of the 87 verses from the Index
Academicorum | 113

6.4 Editions used for the other 22 verses (Stephanus, Diogenes

Laertius and Aulus Gellius) | 116
6.5 Prior editions of the original verses from the Chronica and

research | 117

6.6 Concordance | 119

6.7 Scholars mentioned in the apparatus (in alphabetical order) and

conspectus signorum | 123

7 Edition with translation | 125

8 Commentary | 148
Contents | IX
Part 3: Diplomatic transcript and images 

9 Diplomatic transcript with trace description, HSI, MSI and disegni
(Index Academicorum) | 227
Part 4: Index nominum et verborum
10 Index of the verses of the Chronica | 275
Bibliography | 287
Index | 295
General Index | 295

Index locorum | 299
X | Praefatio
Praefatio
Arma virumque cecinit versibus heroicis ille notus vates et celeberrimus princeps
poetarum Latinorum, quos omnes studiosi mirantes non ignorant. Plures autem
omnino eruditi ignorare videntur primum modis iambicis factum carmen docens
legentes, in quo Apollodorus Atheniensis quasi etiam arma virosque cecinit. Illud
latum carmen docens celebratissimum historiam mundi totius a deletione Troiae
opulentae usque ad dies Apollodori ipsius in lingua Graeca eleganter copiose
diserte exponens Chronica inscriptum est. Apollodorus, cui cognomen propter
opera grammaticus est, carmen docens iambicis versibus modulari coepit, cum
rite priores poetae docentes Hesiodum imitantes heroicos versus praeposuissent;
innumerabiles auctores Latini et Graeci id opus magnum Apollodori in quattuor
voluminibus singulis consistens scrutati solum illas partes tradiderunt, quae suis
excerptis usui fuerunt. Nihilominus plerique eorum versus iambicos Chronicorum
requisitos, quamvis elegantes et dictioni prosaicae similes et haudquaquam
suavem narrationem factorum perturbantes, in rebus historicis explicandis non
utiles esse censuerunt aliis causis accedentibus, ut solum pauci versus veri et
statu incorrupti ad tempora nostra transmitterentur. Permulti illorum versuum
Chronicorum in papyro Herculanensi auctore Philodemo vitas et nomina virorum
horum olim praestantium Academiae nobis praebente servati sunt, quae nunc
retegentibus invisibilia machinis planius legi et melius transcribi potest. Versus
operis etiam in aliis scriptoribus reperiuntur. Numquam editor nostrae aetatis
non rudes versus reliquos collegit, edidit, in linguam hodiernam traduxit atque
illustrans annotavit, etiamsi non dubium est, quin versus quidem Chronicorum,
carminis docentis iambici primi, occupatione laboribusque digni sint. Qua de re
omnibus versibus relictis studens eum librum in publicum producere ausus sum;
reprehenderer, si ulterius loquerer. Hic enim non locus disserendi de Chronicis,
utilitate versuum, Apollodoro et auctoribus aliis est, de quibus lingua Britannica
melius tractetur, sed collegis me in scribendo libro adiuvantibus gratiam agendi.
Primum mentionem professoris egregii Robert Fowler, emeriti universitatis
Bristoliensis et editoris seriei Sozomena auctoritate societatis Herculanensis (Her-
culaneum society) auspicatae facere decet, qui utilia sagaci mente suadens
librum in statum meliorem redegerit. Deinceps Nigel Wilson, philologi Oxoni-
ensis nobilissimi et amici per multos annos honesti, oblivisci nefas esset, prae-
sertim cum eum librum aliis editoribus proponeret et semper mihi subsidio esset.
Etiam Dirk Obbink, editor et papyrologus, non silentio praetereundus est, qui
magna benevolentia me saepe in universitate Oxoniensi morantem memor amici-
tiae papyrologorum suppeditavit et sponsor collegio medio Aedis Christi (GCR-
ChCh) pro tempore adiunxit. Denique professoribus Tobias Reinhardt et Jeffrey
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