CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Bailey, Ryan John |
|---|---|
| Title | Arethas of Caesarea and the Scholia on Philostratus' Vita Apollonii in Laur. 69.33 |
| Summary | This thesis investigates the understudied and partially unedited corpus of scholia on Philostratus' Vita Apollonii. C. L. Kayser included over three hundred scholia from four manuscripts among the notes that follow his 1844 edition of the VA. The scholia in these manuscripts vary in size, ranging from glosses of a single word to paragraphs of some length. While many scholia are common to both Laur. 69.33 and other manuscripts, a significant number are found only in the margins of Laur. 69.33. In addition, there are some thirty scholia in Laur. 69.33 which were never edited by Kayser and have remained unpublished. Scholars in the late nineteenth century, particularly Adolf Sonny, conjectured that Laur. 69.33 was an apograph of a codex once owned and annotated by Arethas (ca. 850–post 932), archbishop of Caesarea from the year 902 or 903 until his death. However, due to the lack of convincing argument and corroborative evidence, some scholars have rightly been hesitant to attribute the scholia on the VA in Laur. 69.33 to Arethas, and hence to include the VA among the works that made up Arethas' personal library. There are very good reasons for attributing many of the scholia on the VA to Arethas, but these have never been clearly stated, in large part for the reason that a number of scholia in the margins of Laur. 69.33 have remained unedited. The first chapter, "The Library and Scholia of Arethas of Caesarea," contains an overview of the eight codices that survive from the personal library of Arethas; its purpose is to elucidate Arethas' scholiastic habits from his own codices and to provide a solid foundation for an analysis of the scholia on the VA and the status of Laur. 69.33 as an authentic transcript of a codex owned and annotated by Arethas. The second chapter, "The Scholia on Philostratus' Ta es ton Tyanea Apollōnion in Laur. 69.33," examines the proposals of Adolf Sonny and Rudolf Mueller concerning the scholia on the VA and their relation to Arethas and considers additional evidence provided by some of the previously unedited scholia. The third chapter, "The Christian Polemic against Philostratus and Apollonius of Tyana," presents and analyzes most of the previously unedited scholia and places the scholiast's acerbic invective against Philostratus and Apollonius within the long, protracted, and surprisingly variegated reception history of the VA. |
| Supervisor | Gaul, Niels Henrik |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/bailey_ryan.pdf |
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