'Marcellinus' Life of Thucydides: Criticism and criteria in the biographical tradition

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 538-558

  Maitland, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1093/cq/46.2.538     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. The manuscript tradition has been exhaustively collated and discussed by I. B. Alberti, Thucydidis Historiae (Rome, 1972)
2. Alberti's stemma shows that all existing manuscripts derive from a single archetype, with a proliferation of copies from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. This is borne out by the way in which E and Gu., while exhibiting a few minor differences one from the other, in the main replicate inconsistencies and dubious passages, and leave the same gaps, presumably where their sources were lacking. However, for chs. 32-49 of the material attributed to 'Marcellinus', we must depend on Guelferbytanus alone. For a complete list of the codices containing one or both of the Lives of Thucydides, see Alberti, praefatio p. clxxxix
3. G. Oomen, De Zosimo Ascalonita atque Marcellino, Diss. Monasterii Westphalorum, (1926)
4. F. Ritter, Didymi Chalcenteri Opera (Cologne, 1845) pp. 124ff
5. see M. Schmidt, Didymi Chalcenteri Grammatici Alexandri Fragmenta (Amsterdam, 1964), pp. 324-33
6. Caecilius Calactinus, Fragmenta, E. Ofenloch (ed.), (Stuttgart, 1967), pp. 193-5
7. E. Bux, RE 1471-3
8. See C. Walz, Rhetores Graeci, pp. 1-211. References to these scholia will be to this edition
9. U. von Wilamovitz-Möllendorff, 'Der Thucydideslegende', Hermes 12 (1877), 326-67
10. E. Petersen, De Vita Thucydidis Disputatio (Dorpat, 1873)
11. C. F. Haack, De Thucydidis Vita (Leipzig, 1820)
12. L. Piccirilli, Storie dello storico Tucidide (Genova, 1985). Between them, the entry in RE (1450-87) and Piccirilli's introduction provide an ample survey of the problems and work done
13. The script is very faint here, but it appears that λλ is missing, ζ has also been written instead of ε. Bertrand Hemmerdinger, Essai sur l'histoire du texte de Thucydide (Paris, 1955), pp. 61-3, wishes to emend to on the basis of sch. Anab. ii.6.29, which cites 'Marcellinus' 27 but attributes it to the commentator Marcellus, referred to by Gregory of Corinth, De Dlalecto Attica 34
14. I. Bekker, Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco (Berlin, 1821), p. vii
15. E. F. Poppo, Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo, (Leipzig, 1866-83), ad loc., p. vi
16. There seems to be a comparison of Thucydides and Herodotus in terms of stylistic method in Tiberius, 3, p. 81, 23 Sp
17. The texts of Proclus cited are as follows: In Platonis Alcibiadem, L. G. Westerink (ed.), (Amsterdam, 1954)
18. In Platonis Parmenidem, V. Cousin (ed.), (Paris, 1864, repr. Hildesheim, 1961)
19. In Platonis rem publicam commentarii, W. Kroll (ed.), (Leipzig, 1899, 1901, repr. Hildesheim, 1965)
20. A. Severyns, Recherche sur la Chrestomathie de Proclos, tome 1 (Liège, 1938), p. xi, finds that the Chrestomathia is 'ni une anthologie, ni un recueil...C'était...un Manuel abrégé de litterature'
21. Brutus, A. E. Douglas (ed.), (Oxford, 1966)
22. De Oratore, H. Merklin (ed.), (Stuttgart, 1976)
23. A. Momigliano, The Development of Greek Biography (Cambridge, MA, 1971)
24. Momigliano, p. 87:' though in its present form not earlier than the fifth century... [the Life] ...preserves learned discussion which was going on at the time of Didymus...about the various family connections and about the equally mysterious death of the Athenian historian. These are examples of "Suetonian" biographies, the substance of which must go back to Alexandrian erudition'. Certainly Thucydides is mentioned by Philodemus in terms of both style and origin (S. Sudhaus, [ed.], Philodemi Volumina Rhetorica [Amsterdam, 1971], 151.21, 188.16)
25. See A. Adler, Suidae Lexicon, ad loc
26. K. Latte (ed.), Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon (Copenhagen, 1953), prolegomena pp. vi-viii, suggests the sixth rather than the fifth century. Latte comments (p. xi): 'Fieri quidem potuisse, ut Aeschinis scholiasta, doctus homo eiusdem scholae, quae et Marcellini vitam Thucydidis procreavit saeculo nisi fallor sexto p. Chr., ipsum Hesychium adhiberet, non negaverim.'