The Multilingual Physiologus : Studies in the Oldest Greek Recension and Its Translations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macé, Caroline.

Contributor:

Gippert, Jost.

Series:

Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia

Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia ; v.84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic literature.

Didactic literature--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages)

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

The Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Throughout its transformations and adaptations, the Physiologus has never lost its attraction.The present volume offers an introduction to the significance of the Greek text, a new examination of its manuscript tradition, and a completely revised state of the art for each of the ancient translations. Two chapters of the Physiologus, on the pelican and on the panther, are edited in Greek and in each translation. These editions are accompanied by a new English rendering of the edited texts as well as short interpretative essays concerning the two animals.The volume affords new insights into this fascinating book's diffusion, transmission, and reception over the centuries, from its composition at the beginning of the third century CE in Alexandria to the end of the Middle Ages, and across all regions of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West, Egypt and Ethiopia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Slavia orthodoxa.

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ISBN:

2-503-58975-8

OCLC:

1256236431