Roger Pearse

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

Ben C Smith

Incredible resource, Roger. As usual.

Ben.

Roger Pearse

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.

mountainman

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.

Best wishes,



Pete