This paper offers a preliminary investigation into the mid-Byzantine manuscript transmission of two explicitly educational texts from the late 3rd century AD. Attributed to Menander Rhetor, these works explore both the theory and practice of the late antique genus demonstrativum in detail. The primary aim of the study is to challenge the long-held assumption that…
Nell’àmbito della vasta produzione poetica di Gregorio Nazianzeno si indica col nome di Poemata Arcana un gruppo di otto componimenti esametrici dedicati all’esposizione delle principali dottrine della fede cristiana, partendo dalla θεολογία fino alla οἰκονομία lato sensu. Tale silloge poetica, in ragione delle sue intrinseche difficoltà interpretative, è stata oggetto, in età bizantina, di diversi…
The transmission of the text of the Chronographia attributed to Malalas is rather complex. In addition to an unique incomplete manuscript (Baroccianus 182), the parallel tradition is intricate and diverse: summaries, excerpts, rewritings not only in Greek but also in Latin, in Slavonic, in Ethiopian. The monumental edition prepared by Hans Thurn for the Corpus…
Byzantine exegetical catenae represent a valuable, though still partially unexplored source for the reconstruction of many patristic texts preserved in fragmentary form, often known only by their title. The aim of my proposal is to examine two fragments circulating under the name of Dionysius of Alexandria from the Komnenian age onwards, in order to show…
La chronique byzantine anonyme appelée Pseudo-Syméon raconte l’histoire dès la création du monde jusqu’à la fin du règne de l’empereur Romain II Lécapène (953-963). Les sources qu’il a utilisées sont Georges le Moine (IXe s.), Georges le Syncelle (IXe s.) et d’autres chroniqueurs byzantins et des sources ecclésiastiques précisement pour la partie biblique du texte,…
According to the most recent research, Leontius of Jerusalem is a theologian of the last quarter of the sixth century and the first quarter of the seventh century (ca. 580-620). Although we do not know anything about this author other than that he wrote two Christological works, Contra Monophysitas and Contra Nestorianos, he was one…