Markellinos (rhetorician)
Markellinos ( ancient Greek Μαρκελλῖνος , often Latinized Marcellinus ) was a late antique rhetorician and commentator on Hermogenes of Tarsus .
The commentary, written in Greek , has only survived as part of an unusually long katen to the text “About the Doctrine of Stasis” ( περὶ τῶν στάσεων ) by Hermogenes. These scholias fill the entire fourth volume of the Rhetores graeci by Christian Walz from 1833. Since the katene also included the explanations of Sopratos and Syrianos , the part of Markellino in this “three-man commentary” is not always precise to determine.
The archetype of the commentary is the Codex Parisinus Graecus 2923 from the 11th century, which was originally owned by Andreas Johannes Laskaris . He gave it to Aldus Manutius , who got the first edition in 1509 after an adaptation by Demetrios Dukas in the second volume of his Rhetores graeci . In the context of the “Three Men Commentary”, the Markellino's share is the only one that is not secured by other older or more extensive manuscripts .
The time of the Markellino can only be determined roughly. He knew Athanasios of Alexandria , while Syrianos and George I of Alexandria seem unknown to him. Hence a lifetime in the 5th or 6th century. Therefore he is possibly identical with the biographer Markellinos - the author of a life story of the historian Thucydides .
expenditure
- Christian Walz : Rhetores graeci. Volume 4. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1833, pp. 39–846 ( digitized version )
literature
- Hugo Rabe : The three-man commentary W IV. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Volume 64, 1909, pp. 578-589 ( digitized version ).
- Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg : Marcellinus 50. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, Sp. 1487 f.
- Hans Gärtner : Marcellinus 19. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 991.
- Manuel Baumbach : Markellinos 3rd In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 914.
- George Alexander Kennedy: Greek Rhetoric Under Christian Emperors. Wipf & Stock, Eugene (OR) 2008, pp. 112-115 (originally Princeton University Press, Princeton [NJ] 1983).
Remarks
- ↑ Demetrios Dukas (ed.): In Aphthonii Progymnasmata Commentarii Innominati autoris. Syriani, Sopatri, Marcellini Commentarii in Hermogenis Rhetorica. Aldus, Venice 1509.
- ^ Martin Sicherheitsl : The Aldina of the Rhetores Graeci (1508–1509) and their handwritten templates. In: Illinois Classical Studies. Volume 17, 1992, pp. 109-134; here: p. 113 f. 121-124 ( PDF ).
- ↑ George Alexander Kennedy: Greek Rhetoric Under Christian Emperors. Wipf & Stock, Eugene (OR) 2008, p. 112.
- ↑ 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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Markellinos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcellinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman rhetorician and commentator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century or 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century or 6th century |