By Georgios A. Xenis
Students were trying to comprehend Sophocles' "Trachiniae" for over millennia. The beginnings of this lengthy culture of the play's interpretation are in Hellenistic Alexandria, and are actually represented by means of a chain of notes that have survived within the margins of medieval manuscripts. The e-book deals an English creation and an authoritative new serious textual content of those notes in line with a radical overview of the manuscript proof and the easiest smooth scholarship. The severe textual content is observed by way of an equipment criticus, and is put in its scholarly context via a wealthy number of parallel passages.
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136a2 (L R), 144–9 (L R), 217b2 (L T R), 230–1 (L T R), 238b (L T R), 243b (L T R), 280b (L R), 281b (L T R). Stemma codicum:32 lr L r ſ a T Lp M A U R Y Ta The survey of the manuscript tradition points to the conclusion that the text should be primarily based upon the testimony of L and MR. T should be taken systematically into account, although it ultimately derives from L, for it contains much interesting material stemming from the conjectural activity of the eminent Byzantine scholar Demetrius Triclinius.
Estienne and B. Heath: ‘mendas plurimas sustuli, partim codicum mss. ope, partim eruditorum virorum monitu’ (vol. v). He also conjectured readings himself both in the first47 and third (1788)48 editions of his work. With regard to his treatment of the Lascaris and Triclinian version, his approach is similar to Estienne’s. g. with regard to sch. 1 ǑƟ Stephanus 369: ǓƟƔ L: om. 2 ȁ Stephanus 370: ȁƟ codd. 45 Sophoclis quae extant omnia cum veterum grammaticorum scholiis. Superstites tragoedias VII, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensuit, versione et notis illustravit, deperditarum fragmenta collegit Rich.
Superstites tragoedias VII, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensuit, versione et notis illustravit, deperditarum fragmenta collegit Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck, vol. I (continens Oedipos duos, Antigonam et Trachinias) – vol. II (continens Ajacem, Philoctetam et Electram), Argentorati 1786. 46 De Marco 1951, 25 thinks it more probable that Brunck drew on Adrianus Turnebus rather than directly on T for his ancient scholia. However, the fact that Brunck offers material which exists in T but not in the aforementioned edition is sufficient to establish that he did employ T in addition to Turnebus.