This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers. Published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus Manutius, the Aldine edition was the first printed edition of most of the thirty-six Greek letter collections that it contains. As such, it embodies the intersection between the medieval epistolary anthologies that predated it and the printed editions of Greek epistolographic collections that followed, which were primarily based on its text. In recent decades, the Aldien edition has been the subject of important works, which have sought to analyse its contents and sources. This issue explores the Aldine edition from three perspectives: its relationship to the epistolary collections found in medieval manuscripts, its relationship to the printed editions that followed it and its legacy and value for the modern scholar studying Ancient Greek epistolography.
Edited by:
Julene Abad Del Vecchio Imprint: Manchester University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 248mm,
Width: 172mm,
ISBN:9781526174710 ISBN 10: 1526174715 Pages: 104 Publication Date:10 October 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Introduction – Anna Tiziana Drago Observations on the Text and the Lexicon on the Letters Attributed to Demosthenes – Felipe G. Hernández Muñoz The Letters of Alciphron and Theophylact Simocatta – Anna Tiziana Drago Philostratus in the Aldine Edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers – Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo The letters of Phalaris, between Manuscripts and Editio Princeps – Émeline Marquis The Principles of Selection and Arrangement of the Letters of Basil the Great in the Aldine Edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers – Antonia Sarri Scipione Forteguerri (il Carteromaco) as Reader of the Aldine Greek Epistolographers: the Epistles of Phalaris – Vinko Hinz -- .
Julene Abad Del Vecchio is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester -- .