My interest was sparked by a sentence in Richard W. Pfaff, The Library of the Fathers: The Tractarians as Patristic Translators, Studies in Philology 70 (1973), p.329f. This paper discusses the history of the Oxford Movement series of English translations. On p.335-6 he says:
Two of the envisaged volumes of Chrysostom never appeared: a selection of letters […]
Despite the lack activity by our newest team members, Bryan Cox and Peter Kirby, I do want to introduce a new team member to you - Michele Asuni, a student Classicist studying in Pisa. His interests especially surround the early Empire, from the Julio-Claudians to the Antonini. Please everyone welcome him aboard!
Collections of sayings by philosophers and other bums are known as gnomologia - the idea being that they contain gnomic wisdom. These things exercised quite a bit of influence in antiquity.
One of the most famous collections of these is the Corpus Parisinum, so called because it is preserved in a massive manuscript (Ms. Paris graecus […]
Delighted to find this site, Theoi, contains a lot of translations of obscure classical authors. The site is New Zealand based, and most of the translations are from the Loeb library. Lots of these are actually out of copyright in the USA because the copyright was not renewed as the law required. I’m not sure […]
Hodoi Elektronikai is a French site with many ancient Greek texts, including The Rich Man by Clement of Alexandria, the Roman Histories by Dio Cassius, several of the Greek romances, Julian the Apostate, and many more. Most of the texts are of a classical nature, such as Herodotus, Homer, and Hesiod; but many are more obscure, such […]
This post is part 11 of my series on ancient canonical lists.
At long last I continue this survey of canonical lists with that of the third council of Carthage, held in the year 397. Fortunately, this post will be brief, since this council presented exactly the 27 books of the New Testament found in most […]
I have accidentally found this volume online at Google books from a search on “cramer catena”. It is here. I could wish that I had known this before seeking out physical copies and paying for photocopies. The authors used in the catena are listed at the back, with page references. It contains a number of […]
I’ve been gathering more materials. The medieval Greek commentaries on the bible (catenae) are made up solely of chunks of quotations from earlier authors. The catena published by John Cramer is particularly good for material by Eusebius, and has a nice index at the back of which pages to look at, unlike another catena by Possinius that […]
The excellent and industrious Andrew Smith has completed a translation into English of the Latin translation of the Chronicon of Eusebius of Caesarea! He has also made this available as a public domain text, which is how it should be, of course. It’s here.
Note that information on the manuscripts should be checked against a recent […]
The revision of the ‘ecloge’ (the collection of selected extracts) of the work is in progress, and it sounds as if it’s thoroughly worthwhile. I’ve also compared the fragments of the full text found in catenae which Angelo Mai published in his first edition to that which he printed in the second. The main difference is […]
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