Text source |
C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 210
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Text status |
Text completely known |
Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
Genre(s) |
Text-related epigram
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Person(s) |
- Poet
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Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
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Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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Tag(s) |
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Critical Notes |
Kaldellis (2005: 91) translates the first words of the second verse as dual forms. |
Translation(s) |
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Comment |
Mazzucchi (1995: 254-255) identifies the author as Niketas Choniates. Bértola (2021: 42) is more cautious: "Nothing invites the rejection of the postulated authorship of Niketas Choniates, but there is not enough evidence either to accept it without prudent hesitation."
text of Mazzucchi (1995: 210) modified by DBBE. |
Bibliography |
Secondary
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J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 39-42
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J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 347 (n. 39), 348 (n. 40)
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A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 91
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Number of verses |
2 |
Occurrence(s) |
[34701] Οἱ δ' ἀτελεῖς νῦν | κινδύν(ων) τῶν ἐν μάχαις
[1203]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
(f. 242r)
(2 verses)
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Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Identification |
Vassis ICB 2005, 512: "Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (4.71.4)"
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Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/34698 |