Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts

middle of the 6th cent. AD; Greek medical writer. Works A comprehensive encyclopaedia on general medicine as well as individual medical treatises. Manuscripts The most important Greek textual witness is Parisinus gr. suppl. 1297, which only survives in fragmentary form. It contained several works by Alexander, as well as special material that also appears in the old Latin translation. More of his works were preserved by another group of manuscripts around Marcianus gr. V9 and Parisinus gr. 2203. All other text types w…

probably active in the 3rd cent. BC; pseudonymous author of a fictional biography of Alexander [4] the Great. Works The Alexander Romance is preserved in four Greek recensions (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Epsilon). Of Alpha there is only a single manuscript (A); missing sections can be filled in from the Armenian translation (probably 5th cent.). A presumed fifth, now lost, recension (Delta) serves to explain the deviations of the Syriac translations (6th cent.). Two Latin versions (translations of Alpha) date from th…

b. ca. AD 340 in Trier; d. 4 April AD 397 in Milan; Latin Doctor of the Church; along with Augustinus, Hieronymus [8] and Gregorius [II 3] the Great he is one of the four Western Doctores Ecclesiae. Works Ambrosius’ versatile œuvre is closely tied to his episcopal office. Roughly half of it consists of exegetic writings that are based on sermons, with a particular emphasis on exegeses of the Pentateuch. One example is the Hexaemeron, which examines Gen 1,1–26. With his ethical writings, which were also based on sermons, Ambrose expanded the field of Christian ethics. F…

b. ca. AD 330 in Antioch [1]; d. ca. AD 400; Roman historian. Works Historical work conceived as a continuation of Tacitus’ [1] Histories. Works Latin Title English Title Dating Brief Description 1 Res gestae Rom. History completed ca. 395 Historical work in 31 bks., of which bks. 14–31 are extant (history of the years AD 353–378) Manuscripts Name / Number Dating Selection Content / Notable Features 1 Vaticanus lat. 1873 9th cent. Brought to Italy in 1417 by Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, many missing sections 2 Fragmenta Marburgensia 9th cent.? Six pages of an otherwise lost MS, …

Anonymous collection of Greek poems on the themes of wine and love from the period of the 1st cent. BC/1st cent. AD to the 5th/6th cent. AD; transmitted in the codex of the Anthologia Palatina (cf. Anthology), erroneously under the name of the Greek poet Anacreon [1] (6th cent. BC). Works While only three are complete, authentic poems (fragment 2 Diehl/12 PMG; fragment 40 Diehl/50 PMG; 88 Diehl/72 PMG) and a number of fragments by the lyric poet Anacreon have been preserved. The collection comprises ca. 60 poems from various periods of Antiquity…

b. 440 BC in Athens; d. after 392/ 91 BC; Attic orator and politician. Works Four orations are extant. Manuscripts The manuscripts derive from a Byzantine composite predecessor (with Isaeus [1], Dinarchus, Antiphon [4] and Lycurgus [9]). Works Greek Title Latin Title English Title Dating Brief Description 1 Περὶ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιµονίους εἰρήνης / Perì tês pròs Lakedaimoníous eirḗnēs (Or. 3) De pace On the Peace with Sparta 392/ 391 Advocating acceptance of the peace with Sparta 2 Περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ καθόδου / Perì tês heautoû kathódou (Or. 2) De reditu On His Return 409–406 Plea for the restor…

Works Major anthology of Greek epigrams by hundreds of poets from 16 cents.; consists of the collection of the Anthologia Palatina (3,700 poems) in 15 books and, as book 16, 388 additional poems only preserved in the Anthologia Planudea (so-called Appendix Planudea). Translations Partial translations, especially into Latin, began to appear in the middle of the 16th cent. Works Latin Title English Title Dating Brief Description 1 Anthologia Palatina ( Anth. Palat.) Palatine Anthology ca. 980 Collection of ca. 3,700 GK poems, arranged systematically and comprising ca. 23,…

Works Collection of Latin poems; the most complete version is gathered in the Codex Salmasianus. Works Latin Title English Title Dating Brief Description 1 Anthologia Latina Latin Anthology 1st-6th cent. AD Lat. poems of varying provenance and type; alongside shorter poems and epigrams there are longer pieces: Virgilian centos, verse declamations, hexametric love letters, an ethopoeia empathizing with Achilles, the Pervigilium Veneris, composed in trochaic septenarii, the mythical epyllion De concubitu Martis et Veneris and others Manuscripts Name / Number Dating Selection Co…

b. ca. 480 BC in the Attic deme of Rhamnous; executed in Athens in 411 BC; Greek orator and logographer, identification with the ‘Sophist’ Antiphon is controversial but increasingly accepted; however, he must be distinguished from the tragedian of the same name. Works Regardless of the question of whether Antiphon the Orator and Antiphon the Sophist are the same person, there are two distinct groups of writings to be considered, namely: (1) the orations, some of which have come down to us in a direct line (Antiphon/Orator); and (2) the t…

2nd cent. AD; author of a Greek adventure novel. Works Fragments of the novel are preserved in the summary by Photius [2] ( Bibliotheca , codex 166). Works Greek Title Latin Title English Title Dating Brief Description 1 Τὰ ὑπὴρ Θούλην ἄπιστα / Tà hypē`r Thoúlēn ápista The Incredible Wonders Beyond Thule 2nd cent. AD Account of the journey to Thule undertaken by Dinias and his son, in 24 bks. Modern translations (complete works) Translator Selection / Vols. Place / Series Year Language 1 B. Kytzler in Im Reiche des Eros, vol. 2, 738–740; 686–696 (Munich) 1983 GE 2 G.N. Sandy in CAGN 775–782 1989 EN…

1st cent. AD; author of an astrological poem in Greek (original title not preserved). Works Latin Title English Title Dating Brief Description 1 Carmen astrologicum elegiacum Astrological Poem in Elegiacs 1st cent. AD Didactic poem on astrology/astronomy; the model for subsequent works, such as the Mathesis of Firmicus Maternus Papyri Name / Number Dating Selection Content / Notable Features 1 P. Oxy. 4503–4507 2nd–5th cent. Modern editions (complete works) Editor Selection / Vols. Place / Series Year Content / Notable Features 1 D. Obbink Teubner 2006 Ed. princ. Manfred Landfester S…