Markellinos (biographer)

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Codex Palatinus Graecus 252, folio 1 recto : Markellinos' Life of Thucydides

The late antique author of a detailed biography of the Greek historian Thucydides is known under the name Markellinos ( ancient Greek Μαρκελλῖνος , often Latinized Marcellinus ) .

In Greek written signature, apart from other copies in two relevant manuscripts obtained: 1. the Codex Palatinus Graecus 252 from the first quarter of the 10th century, as handwriting E in the critical edition has found Thucydides input; 2. in Guelferbytanus Gudianus Graecus 35 from the 13th century, part of the critical Thucydides editions as Gu .

The Palatinus offers as a heading Μαρκελλίνου ἐκ τῶν εἰς Θουκυδίδην σχολίων περὶ τοῦ βὐου αὐτοῦ Θουκυδοδου κα τδς (. The Suda , a Byzantine lexicon of the late 10th century, also knows Markellinos as the author of the Thucydides Vita . According to the scriptures, the Vita des Thucydides followed on from a previously finished treatise on Demosthenes and served as an introduction to the writings of Thucydides. The author or editor used numerous good, older sources, which he probably came to know through Didymos Chalkenteros . The sources that are obviously only processed secondarily include Hellanikos of Lesbos , Herodotus , Kratippos of Athens , the atthidographers Androtion and Philochoros , as well as Hermippos and Polemon of Ilion .

The text is divided into 58 paragraphs, which can be summarized in at least three overarching sections. After the introductory first paragraph, these are paragraphs 2–44, 45–53 and 54–58. Each section is introduced with biographical notes and then goes on to a style analysis. The work of Thucydides is judged in a dry, sober manner, primarily from a rhetorical point of view, it is recorded where he used Homer , where Pindar or the Sophists as models. The connections between the parts seem to have only been loosely linked by Markellinos or a final editor.

The Vita, which Johannes Tzetzes also provided with scholien , probably originated in the first half of the 5th century. Possibly the author is identical to the rhetor Markellinos , a commentator on Hermogenes of Tarsus .

expenditure

  • Μαρκελλίνου ἐκ τῶν εἰς Θουκυδίδην σχολίων περὶ τοῦ βίου αὐτοῦ Θουκυδίδου καἰ τῆς τοῦ λόγου ἰδέας ( digital ) δέας ( Digital .
  • Friedrich Haase : Thucydidis historia belli Peloponnesiaci cum nova translatione latina. Paris 1855 ( digitized ).
  • Timothy Burns: Marcellinus' Life of Thucydides, translated, with an introductory essay. In: Interpretation. Volume 38, 2010, pp. 3–25 ( PDF ).

literature

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert : Ad Marcellini vitam Thucydidis observationes criticae. In: Rheinisches Museum for Philology, History and Greek Philosophy . Volume 1, 1827, pp. 169-193 ( PDF ).
  • Ernst Bux : Marcellinus 49. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, Col. 1450-1487.
  • Gian Battista Alberti: Thucydidis Historiae. Volume 1. Instituto Polygraphico dello Stato, Rome 1972, pp. Clxxiv-clxxix.
  • Judith Maitland: 'Marcellinus'' Life of Thucydides. Criticism and Criteria in the Biographical Tradition. In: The Classical Quarterly . Volume 46, 1996, pp. 538-558.
  • Tamás Mészáros: Two Critical Notes on the Ancient Biographical Tradition of Thucydides. In: László Horváth (ed.): Investigatio Fontium. Greek and Latin sources with explanations. Contributions of the conference Classical Antiquity - Byzantium - Humanism of the XI. Hungarian Conference on Classical Studies. Eötvös-József-Collegium, Budapest 2014, pp. 129–142 ( PDF ).

Remarks

  1. For the various manuscripts see the critical edition by Gian Battista Alberti: Thucydidis Historiae. Volume 1. Instituto Polygraphico dello Stato, Rome 1972, pp. Clxxiv-clxxix.
  2. Suda , keyword Ἀπήλαυσε , Adler number: alpha 3150 , Suda-Online and Suda , keyword Ἀπολαύειν , Adler number: alpha 3370 , Suda-Online .
  3. Timothy Burns: Marcellinus' Life of Thucydides, translated, with an introductory essay. In: Interpretation. Volume 38, 2010, p. 4; Hans Gärtner : Marcellinus 18 and 19. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 991.