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Lexis
Journal issue | Num. 43 (n.s.) – Giugno 2025 – Fasc. 1
Research Article | Stemmatic Reflections on the Library of Apollodorus in the Light of an Unexplored Witness
Stemmatic Reflections on the Library of Apollodorus in the Light of an Unexplored Witness
Abstract
The paper discusses the stemma codicum for Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca. Richard Wagner and Aubrey Diller, followed by all modern editors and commentators, considered the Parisinus gr. 2722, the Vaticanus gr. 950, and the Hierosol. Ἁγίου Σάββα 366 to be mutually independent. In the first part I show that the textual and codicological data they gathered to prove this are inconclusive and that it cannot be ruled out that the oldest manuscript, i.e. the Parisinus gr. 2722, is the ancestor of the other two. In the second part I take into account a hitherto unedited collection of excerpts from the Bibliotheca, preserved in the Neapolitanus II D 4, to argue that all witnesses indeed derive from the Parisinus gr. 2722.
Submitted: April 21, 2023 | Accepted: Jan. 17, 2025 | Published June 26, 2025 | Language: it
Keywords Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca • Mythography • Stemmatics • Heracles’ Labours • Textual criticism
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