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Storia e critica di testi latini : Cicerone, Donato, Tacito, Celso, Plauto, Plinio, Quintiliano, Livio e Sallustio, commedia ignota
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ISBN: 3487053950 Year: 1974 Publisher: Hildesheim Olms


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Die Textüberlieferung der antiken Literatur und der Bibel
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ISBN: 3423044853 9783423044851 Year: 1988 Volume: 4485 Publisher: München Deutscher Taschenbuch Verl.


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The multilingual "Physiologus" : studies in the oldest Greek recension and its translations
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ISBN: 9782503589749 250358974X 9782503589756 Year: 2021 Volume: 84 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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The Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Throughout its transformations and adaptations, the 'Physiologus' has never lost its attraction. The present volume offers an introduction to the significance of the Greek text, a new examination of its manuscript tradition, and a completely revised state of the art for each of the ancient translations. Two chapters of the Physiologus, on the pelican and on the panther, are edited in Greek and in each translation. These editions are accompanied by a new English rendering of the edited texts as well as short interpretative essays concerning the two animals. The volume affords new insights into this fascinating book's diffusion, transmission, and reception over the centuries, from its composition at the beginning of the third century CE in Alexandria to the end of the Middle Ages, and across all regions of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West, Egypt and Ethiopia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Slavia orthodoxa

Ars corrigendi in der frühen Neuzeit : Studien zur Geschichte der Textkritik
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ISBN: 9783110192346 Year: 2007 Volume: 4 Publisher: Berlin ; New York Walter de Gruyter


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Editing Greek and Latin texts.
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ISBN: 040463673X Year: 1989 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) AMS


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On providence : on the existence of evils
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ISBN: 9780715631980 0715631985 Year: 2003

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Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world? Neoplatonists agree that it cannot be caused by higher and worthier beings. Plotinus had said that evil is matter, which, unlike Aristotle, he collapsed into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.

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