A critical discussion of the commentary to Isocrates' Antidosis published by Y.L. Too.

A biographical sketch of Engelbert Drerup written by Edgar Martini on the occasion of Drerup’s 60th birthday. The text was originally published in 1931, in the Catholic journal «Der Wächter». It is reprinted here with an introduction, notes and an Italian translation.

The ancient tradition assigned an important place to the school of Isocrates within the Athenian culture of the 4th century BC, a role which was probably more important than modern scholarship has thus far recognized. However, a comprehensive investigation, designed to cast light on both the practical and ideal aspects of this institution, is still lacking. Thus, in the light of present knowledge, a general reassessment of the subject may be attempted, with special attention being paid to the location of the school, its nature and purposes, its organization, its teaching and research practices, to the texts that were produced in the school and to its role in the cultural and political life of Athens in the 4th century. In particular, as far as the last issue is concerned, an inclusive survey of the personalities that were connected to the school of Isocrates by the ancient tradition might prove useful.

The paper deals with the idea of ancient literary composition in Byzantine authors. The texts discussed come from Tzetzes' Historiae and Michael Choniates' Letters. They significantly share a collection of examples concerning ancient Greek authors. Notes on fragments of Alcidamas and Lysias are included.

L’Antidosi è tra i testi del corpus isocrateo quello che ha avuto in età moderna la storia testuale più “movimentata”. Conosciuto per secoli in forma gravemente mutila (a causa di una lacuna tra gli attuali §§ 72-309), questo discorso fu riscoperto nella sua interezza al principio del XIX secolo da Andreas Moustoxydis, in due manoscritti (l’Ambros. O 144 sup. e il Laur. plut. 87.14). Mustoxydis nel 1812 lo diede per la prima volta alle stampe nella versione integrale. Non si trattò però di una vicenda del tutto lineare: alcuni documenti editi e inediti rivelano, ad esempio, che a Moustoxydis fu impedito di avere accesso a tutti i manoscritti contenenti il testo completo e che in quelli stessi anni si svolse, si potrebbe dire, una “corsa all’inedito”, che contemplò anche progetti paralleli di pubblicazione. Protagonisti di queste vicende furono studiosi e letterati come Angelo Mai, Amedeo Peyron, Johannes Caspar von Orelli, Girolamo Amati,Vincenzo Monti e Giulio Perticari.

This paper reconsiders Horace, Carm. 3. 30. 1 in relation to Isocrates, Antid. 7 and Ennius, Ann. 567 Vahlen2 (= 579 Skutsch), three texts which contain the idea of the work of an ancient author as a "monument". But both Isocrates' section and Ennius' line have had a peculiar textual history which has for a long time prevented scholars from recognizing the similarity of these texts to Horace's exegi monumentum aere perennius. The passage of Isocrates was in fact damaged by a lacuna and the line of Ennius was preserved in a corrupt form by a late grammarian. It was only at the beginning of the 19th century that the rediscovery of Isocrates manuscripts revealed a complete text of Antid. 7, while the line of Ennius was restored brilliantly by conjecture in the middle of the 20th century, thus enabling scholars to rethink the mutual relations among the three authors. The examples here discussed show, once again, how classical scholarship has been affected by the time and process by which ancient texts were recovered.

Il volume, dedicato a Luciano Canfora, consiste in una raccolta di scritti sui temi della filologia greca e latina, della storia dei testi antichi, della ricezione dell’antichità classica e della storia degli studi. Completa il volume la Bibliografia degli scritti scientifici di Luciano Canfora dal 1963 al 2017.

Tre lettere dalla corrispondenza di Domenico Comparetti con Harold Idris Bell riguardanti quattro papiri documentari, in prevalenza relativi all'archivio di Heroninos.

Indici ragionati della rivista "Quaderni di Storia".Gli indici sono così suddivisi:1) Sommari dei fascicoli; 2) Indici degli autori e dei collaboratori; 3) Indice dei nomi e delle cose notevoli; 4) Indici delle testimonianze scritte; 5) Indice dei libri recensiti.

Review of the Oxford critical edition of Antiphon and Andocides.

Uno studio sugli anni trascorsi in Inghilterra dal falsario e studioso di testi classici Costantino Simonides, sulla base di documentazione inedita e/o trascurata.