Antonio Garzya

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Antonio Garzya (born January 22, 1927 in Brindisi , † March 6, 2012 in Naples ) was an Italian Graecist and Byzantinist .

Life

After visiting Ginnasio P. Colonna in Galatina ( Province of Lecce ) and Liceo G. Palmieri in Lecce , Garzya studied Classical Philology at the University of Naples . He acquired the laurea with a thesis on Andromache des Euripides . In 1953 he acquired the libera docenza and then taught at state grammar schools from 1954 to 1966. In 1960 he was a lecturer in Byzantine philology at the University of Naples, from 1960 to 1965 for papyrology . From 1965 to 1966 he was headmaster before he was an adjunct professor of Byzantine philology and history at the University of Macerata from 1966 to 1968 . At the same time he was teaching Latin literature there. From 1969 to 1980 he was professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Naples. In addition, from 1973 to 1983 he taught there in Greek philology of the Middle Ages and modern Greek philology. In 1976 he was visiting professor for Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna . Since 1981 he has been professor of Greek literature at the University of Naples. From 1984 to 1988 he was also professeur associé for medieval Greek at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne . Since 1993 he has been a member of UPRESA 8062 “Médecine grecque” (previously URA 1255) of the CNRS in Paris .

Garzya was editor of the journal Κοινωνία and the publication series Speculum (D'Auria, Naples), Hellenica et Bizantina Neapolitana (Bibliopolis, Naples) and the Classici greci: Sezione tardoantica e bizantina (UTET, Turin). He was on the editorial boards of the Revue des études grecques (Paris), the Cuadernos de filología clásica (Madrid), the Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici (Rome), the Bizantinistica (formerly Rivista di bizantinistica , Bologna), the Archivio di storia della cultura (Naples) and the Magna Graecia (Cosenza).

The honors that Garzya have received are numerous. In 1967 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Toulouse . In 1970 he became a full member of the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples, of which he was President from 2002, and in 1981 a member of the Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti della Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli , of which he was President from 1997 to 2000 . In 1974 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , in 1980 an honorary member of the Εταιρεία Βυζαντινών Σπουδών (Athens), 1989 also an honorary member of the Εταιρεία Ρωμαϊκών Σπουδών (Athens), 1989 as corresponding member, 2001 as a full member of the Accademia delle Scienze (Turin), accepted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles – Lettres in 1999 and the Athens Academy in 2001. Since 1980 he has been Vice – President of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines , since 1993 President of the Associazione italiana di studi bizantini and Honorary President of the Associazione di studi tardoantichi .

Research priorities

Garzya mainly worked on the philosophy of editions on ancient, late ancient and Byzantine literature of the Greeks. The focus of ancient literature was on archaic choral poetry ( Alkman ) and elegy ( Theognis ), classical tragedy ( Euripides ) and its reception in the new comedy ( Menander ) and its reception in the Roman comedy ( Plautus ). At the end of the 1950s he turned to late antique ( Synesios of Cyrene , Prokopios of Gaza ) and Byzantine literature ( Nikephoros Basilakas , approx. 1115 - shortly after 1182; Theodoros Prodromos ). Even out-of-the-way texts such as the treatise of a little- known Dionysus of Philadelphia on bird trapping and the Voskopula , an anonymously passed down pastoral poem from the time of the Cretan Renaissance, attracted his attention. In the 1990s he turned to Greek medicine of antiquity , late antiquity ( Oreibasios , Aëtios von Amida , Alexander von Tralleis , Paulos von Aigina , Cassius Iatrosofista ) and the Middle Ages . For many of these authors and texts he published critical editions in the Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana and the Collection Budé (Les Belles Lettres).

Fonts (selection)

Font directory

  • Bibliografia di Antonio Garzya a cura di Alessia Guardasole , in: Synodia. Studia humanitatis Antonio Garzya septuagenario from amicis atque discipulis dicata. M. D'Auria Editore, Naples 1997, pp. 1007-1033.

Monographs

  • Studi su Euripide e Menandro. G. Scalabrini, Naples 1961. - Review by Hans Gärtner , in: Gnomon 34, 1962, pp. 460-463, (online) .
  • Pensiero e tecnica drammatica in Euripide. Libreria Scientifica, Naples 1962, second edition 1987.
  • Studi sulla lirica greca da Alcmane al primo impero. Casa editrice G. D'Anna, 1963 (Biblioteca di cultura contemporanea, 83).
  • Storia della letteratura greca. Paravia, Turin 1972, 17th edition 1991.
  • with Marcello Gigante , Giovanni Polara: Omaggio a BG Teubner. Un grande editore e gli studi classici. D'Auria, Naples 1983 (Radici, 1).
  • Medici bizantini (Oribasio, Aezio, Alessandro di Tralle, Paolo di Egina, Leone). Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, Turin 2006.

Text editions

  • (Ed.): Alcmane, I frammenti. Testo critico, traduzione, commentario a cura di Antonio Garzya. S. Viti, Naples 1954 (Hermes: collana di testi antichi, 4).
  • (Ed.): Teognide, Elegie, Libri I – II. Testo critico, introduzione, traduzione e note con una scelta di testimonianze antiche e un lessico. Sansoni, Florence 1958.
  • with Raffaele Cantarella (ed.): Lirici greci. Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, Rome 1959, 12th edition 1995.
  • (Ed.): Dionysii Ixeuticon seu De aucupio libri tres in epitomen metro solutam redacti. Edidit Antonius Garzya. BG Teubner, Lipsiae 1963, (online) .
  • with Raymond-Joseph Loenertz (Ed.): Procopii Gazaei Epistolae et Declamationes. Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1963 (= Studia Patristica et Byzantina , 9).
  • (Ed.): Euripides, Heraclidae. Edidit Antonius Garzya. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1972 (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). - Review by Kjeld Matthiessen , in: Gnomon 51, 1979, pp. 232-236, (online) .
  • (Eds.): Teodoro Prodromo, Tre carmi satirici. Traduzione con testo a fronte a cura di Antonio Garzya. Libreria scientifica editrice, Naples 1972.
  • (Ed.): Anonimo cretese, La pastorella. Traduzione di Antonio Garzya, con testo greco e note. La buona stampa, Naples 1973.
  • (Ed.): Euripides, Andromacha. Edidit Antonius Garzya. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1978 (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana).
  • (Ed.): Euripides, Alcestis. Edidit Antonius Garzya. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1980, 2nd edition 1983 (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). - Review by Kjeld Matthiessen, in: Gnomon 54, 1982, pp. 589-591, (online) .
  • (Ed.): Nicephori Basilacae Orationes et epistolae. Edidit Antonius Garzya. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1984 (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana).
  • (Ed.): Opere di Sinesio di Cirene: Epistole, operette, inni. A cura di Antonio Garzya. Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, Turin 1989 (Classici Greci).
  • (Ed.): Synésios de Cyrène, Tome II: Correspondance: Lettres I – LXIII. Tome III: Correspondance: Lettres LXIV – CLVI. Texts établi by Antonio Garzya, traduit et commenté by Denis Roques. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2000. - Review by Jacques Schamp , in: L'Antiquité Classique 70, 2001, pp. 333-335, (online) .

Editorships

  • with Italo Gallo, Giuseppe Giangrande , Mario Manfredini (eds.): Sulla tradizione manoscritta dei "Moralia" di Plutarco: Atti del Convegno salernitano del 4–5 December 1986. Pietro Laveglia Editore, Salerno 1988 (Università degli studi di Salerno, Quaderni del Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità , vol. 2).
  • (Ed.): Contributi alla cultura greca nell'Italia meridionale, I. Bibliopolis, Naples 1989 (Hellenica et Byzantina Neapolitana, XIII). - Review by: Alain Touwaide , in: Aevum 65, 1991, pp. 334-337, (online) .
  • (Ed.): Tradizione e ecdotica dei testi medici tardoantichi e bizantini. Proceedings of the International Conference, Anacapri, 29-31 October 1990. M. d'Auria Editore, Naples 1992 (Collana di Atti e Miscellanee, 5). - Review by John Scarborough , in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70, 1996, pp. 518-519.
  • with Jacques Jouanna (ed.): Storia e ecdotica dei testi medici greci (Atti del IIe convegno internazionale, Parigi, 24-26 May 1994). Naples 1996.
  • with Jacques Jouanna (ed.): I testi medici greci. Tradizione e ecdotica - Les textes médicaux grecs. Tradition et ecdotique (Actes du IIIe international colloque de Naples, October 15-17, 1997). Naples 1999.
  • (Ed.): Per la storia della tipografia Napoletana nei secoli XV – XVIII. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Napoli 2005, 16-17 December. Accademia Pontaniana, Naples 2006 (Quaderni dell'Accademia Pontaniana, 44).
  • (Ed.): Ecdotica e ricezione dei testi medici greci. Atti del V Convegno Internazionale (Napoli 1-2 ottobre 2004) . 2006.

Collections of essays by Garzya

  • Storia e interpretazione di testi bizantini. Saggi e ricerche. Prefazione di Raffaele Cantarella. Variorum Reprints, London 1974. - (32 articles between 1957 and 1973)
  • Il mandarino e il quotidiano. Saggi sulla letteratura tardoantica e bizantina. Bibliopolis, Neapel 1983. - (15 articles between 1976 and 1984) - Review by Heinz Hofmann , in: Mnemosyne 42, 1989, pp. 129-132, (online) .
  • La parola e la scena. Studi sul teatro antico da Eschilo a Plauto. Bibliopolis, Naples 1997.
  • Percorsi e tramiti di cultura. Saggi sulla civiltà tardoantica e bizantina con una giunta sulla tradizione degli studi classici. D'Auria, Naples 1997.
  • Per un'idea della Grecia. Letter from 1995 to 2011. A cura di Anna Caramico. Bibliopolis, Naples 2012.

literature

  • Ugo Criscuolo (Ed.): Ταλαρίσκος. Studia graeca Antonio Garzya sexagenario a discipulis oblata. M. D'Auria Editore, Naples 1987.
  • Ugo Criscuolo, Riccardo Maisano (ed.): Synodia. Studia humanitatis Antonio Garzya septuagenario from amicis atque discipulis dicata. M. D'Auria Editore, Naples 1997.
  • Ugo Criscuolo (Ed.): L'Antico e la sua eredità. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di studi in onore di Antonio Garzya (Napoli, September 20-21, 2002). M. D'Auria, Naples 2004. - (contains essays on various subjects, the two essays on the person of Garzya listed below and a list of his writings)
  • Ugo Criscuolo: Antonio Garzya antichista. In: Ugo Criscuolo (ed.), L'Antico e la sua eredità. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di studi in onore di Antonio Garzya (Napoli, September 20-21, 2002). M. D'Auria, Naples 2004, pp. 189-194.
  • Ugo Criscuolo: Antonio Garzya: il maestro e l'uomo , in: Maria Elvira Consoli (ed.), Sapientia et eloquentia. Omaggio ad Antonio Garzya offerto dall'AST di Lecce . Congedo Editore, Galatina 2012, 9-17.
  • Ugo Criscuolo: Antonio Garzya (January 22, 1927– March 6, 2012) , in: Eikasmos 23, 2012, 351–356.
  • Riccardo Maisano: Antonio Garzya bizantinista. In: Ugo Criscuolo (ed.), L'Antico e la sua eredità. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di studi in onore di Antonio Garzya (Napoli, September 20-21, 2002). M. D'Auria, Neapel 2004, pp. 195-198, (online) (PDF).

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personal data
SURNAME Garzya, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Graecist and Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Brindisi
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2012
Place of death Naples