La Vita Chisiana de Dionisio de Alejandria: ¿un comentario inacabado de época paleóloga?
This contribution offers a new critical edition and a first complete translation of an unfinished and poorly transmitted commentary on the Periegesis of Dionysius of Alexandria. Its first part has been edited several times as Vita Chisiana, obscuring the real character of the text, which constitutes...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/352843 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/352843 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Geografia antigua Edición de textos griegos Poesía antigua Dionisio Periegeta Tolomeo Comentarios bizantinos http://metadata.un.org/sdg/14 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/3 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/2 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/1 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/13 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/12 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/11 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/10 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/9 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/8 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/7 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/6 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/5 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/4 http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15 Palaeogeography Poetry Ancient history |
| Sumario: | This contribution offers a new critical edition and a first complete translation of an unfinished and poorly transmitted commentary on the Periegesis of Dionysius of Alexandria. Its first part has been edited several times as Vita Chisiana, obscuring the real character of the text, which constitutes the most complete example of prolegomena to the Periegesis, although they introduce an exegesis of the poem that does not go beyond its first verses, probably left unfinished by its author. Preserved in two manuscripts of the middle or third quarter of the 14th century, the composition, which includes not only single pieces found at the beginning of many copies of the Periegesis but also significant parallel passages in the Parekbolai of Eustathios of Thessalonike to the Periegesis, has been dated by Didier Marcotte to the 4th-6th centuries. However, the confrontation of the speculations on the ecumene’s shape exposed by Dionysius and Ptolemy in the text could suggest considering this exegesis as a result of the Planudean proposal to abandon the unreliable Dionysius in favor of Ptolemy. This was the slogan that Planudes spread in the poems he composed shortly after the discovery of Ptolemy's Geography (post 1282). Thus, the criticism sponsored by Planudes would have influenced the composition of a commentary with late antique roots that would have remained unfinished and only transmitted by two codices. |
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