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Old 07-01-2008, 10:22 AM   #1
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Default Manuscript traditions of the Greek classics

I've been collecting information on how the Greek classics get to us -- lists of extant manuscripts, etc. It's by no means complete, but still very interesting. It's here:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/ma...k_classics.htm

I accidentally also got the transmission of the letters of St. Basil the Great, so that's here for comparison:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/ma...il_letters.htm

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I've been collecting information on how the Greek classics get to us -- lists of extant manuscripts, etc. It's by no means complete, but still very interesting. It's here:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/ma...k_classics.htm

I accidentally also got the transmission of the letters of St. Basil the Great, so that's here for comparison:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/ma...il_letters.htm

All the best,

Roger Pearse
Incredible resource, Roger. As usual.

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Thank you for the kind words. It struck me a few months ago that we had no equivalent to Texts and Transmissions for Greek, and that meant it was really hard to get a feel for what sort of basis our texts rest on. I did email N.G.Wilson and suggest he "get the lads together for another gig" and do one, but he's busy. So I went down to Cambridge University Library and stood there and photocopied the relevant pages from every Greek Loeb that they had which had anything in it. It's not great -- but it's better than zilch.

What I need now is Homer and Euripides and people like that.
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Alciphron, Letters

The 123 literary letters of 'Alciphron' were written in the 2nd century AD as an example of historical fiction and purport to be from the 4th century BC.
This only serves to indicate that the notion that Eusebius wrote historical fiction set backwards a few hundred years in the past cannot be considered novel or unprecedented.

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