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Critical Edition of Plutarch's Treatise De Facie Quae in Orbe Lunae UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Estudios Avanzados en Humanidades: Historia, Arte, Filosofía y Ciencias de la Antigüedad Tesis Doctoral en Cotutela con la UNIVERSIDAD DE GRONINGEN (Países Bajos) CRITICAL EDITION OF PLUTARCH’S TREATISE DE FACIE QUAE IN ORBE LUNAE APPARET WITH CRITICAL, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARIES Luisa Lesage Gárriga Directores: Dr. C. Alcalde Martín, Dr. A. Pérez Jiménez, Dr. L. Roig Lanzillotta Málaga, 2018 AUTOR: Luisa Lesage Gárriga http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9096-8263 EDITA: Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica. Universidad de Málaga Esta obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial- SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cualquier parte de esta obra se puede reproducir sin autorización pero con el reconocimiento y atribución de los autores. No se puede hacer uso comercial de la obra y no se puede alterar, transformar o hacer obras derivadas. Esta Tesis Doctoral está depositada en el Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga (RIUMA): riuma.uma.es A todos los que me hablaron de Plutarco y su luna, y a todos los que por mi culpa ahora saben de mi Plutarco y su luna. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................ IX ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................... XV 1.1 Journals............................................................................................. XV 1.2 Series & Dictionaries .................................................................... XVII 1.3 Other ............................................................................................. XVIII 1.4 Manuscripts, Editions, & Other sigla ........................................... XVIII INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 1 Chapter 1. TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION OF DE FACIE ................................... 5 1.1. Introduction ......................................................................................... 5 1.2. Manuscripts ......................................................................................... 6 1.2.1. Stemma of Manuscripts EB .............................................................. 7 1.2.2. Parisinus gr. 1672 ............................................................................ 9 1.2.3. Parisinus gr. 1675 .......................................................................... 10 1.2.4. Relationship between Parisinus gr. 1672 and Parisinus gr. 1675 10 1.3. First Printed Editions ......................................................................... 11 1.3.1. The Aldine Edition ......................................................................... 11 1.3.1.1. Aldine Exemplars with Annotations ....................................... 12 1.3.1.2. Overview of the Aldine Copies with Annotations .................. 14 1.3.1.3. Analysis of the Aldine I.22 ..................................................... 19 1.3.1.4. Stemma of the Aldine Copies with Annotations .................... 21 1.3.2. Basiliensis Edition ......................................................................... 22 1.3.2.1. Basiliensis Exemplar with Annotations: Amyot ..................... 22 1.4. Other 16th Century Editions .............................................................. 23 1.4.1. Stephanus’ Edition ......................................................................... 23 1.4.2. Xylander’s Edition ......................................................................... 23 1.4.3. Wecheli’s Heirs .............................................................................. 24 1.5. 18th-19th Editions and Great Collections ........................................... 25 I 1.5.1. Reiske, Wyttenbach and Hutten ..................................................... 25 1.5.2. Great Collections ........................................................................... 26 1.6. Conclusions ....................................................................................... 28 Chapter 2. LITERARY STUDY ........................................................................ 29 2.1. Introduction ....................................................................................... 29 2.2. Characters .......................................................................................... 29 2.2.1. Sulla ............................................................................................... 30 2.2.1.1. Sulla in Other Treatises ........................................................... 30 2.2.2. Lamprias ........................................................................................ 32 2.2.2.1. Lamprias in Other Treatises .................................................... 33 2.2.3. Apollonides .................................................................................... 34 2.2.3.1. Apollonides in Other Treatises ............................................... 35 2.2.4. Lucius ............................................................................................. 35 2.2.4.1. Lucius in Other Treatises ........................................................ 36 2.2.5. Pharnaces ....................................................................................... 37 2.2.6. Theon ............................................................................................. 37 2.2.6.1. Theon in Other Treatises ......................................................... 38 2.2.7. Aristotle ......................................................................................... 38 2.2.8. Menelaus ........................................................................................ 39 2.2.9. Absent Characters .......................................................................... 40 2.3. Date of Composition ......................................................................... 41 2.4. Date and Location of the Dramatic Action ....................................... 43 2.4.1. Concluding Remarks ...................................................................... 49 2.5. Structure of the Treatise and Summary of its Contents .................... 49 2.5.1. The Lost Beginning ....................................................................... 50 2.5.2. Means of Communication .............................................................. 52 2.5.3. First Part: the Discussion ............................................................... 52 II 2.5.3.1. The Stains and Irregularities on the Moon’s Surface ............. 54 2.5.3.2. The Moon’s Nature: Aether and Light or Air and Fire ........... 54 2.5.3.3. The Order of the Cosmos and the Moon’s Place in it ............. 55 2.5.3.4. The Moon’s Nature According to Aristotelianism ................. 56 2.5.3.5. The Question of the Moon’s Illumination .............................. 56 2.5.3.6. The Question of the Moon’s Obscuration ............................... 57 2.5.3.7. Possible Refutations of the Academic Theory ........................ 57 2.5.4. Second Part: Transitional Section .................................................. 58 2.5.5. Third Part: the Myth ...................................................................... 59 2.5.5.1. The Content of the Myth ......................................................... 60 2.5.5.2. The Structure of the Myth ....................................................... 61 Chapter 3. CRITICAL EDITION ....................................................................... 65 3.1. Editorial Criteria ................................................................................ 65 3.1.1. Agreements between E and B ........................................................ 66 3.1.2. Discrepancies between E and B ..................................................... 66 3.1.3. The Critical Apparatus ................................................................... 67 3.2. Sigla ................................................................................................... 67 3.2.1. Conspectus Codicum ...................................................................... 67 3.2.2. Editores Citati ................................................................................ 67 3.2.3. Commentatores Critici Citati ......................................................... 68 3.2.4. Other .............................................................................................. 70 3.3. De facie. ............................................................................................ 71 Chapter 4. COMMENTARY TO THE CRITICAL EDITION ........................ 123 4.1. Introduction. Criteria for the Commentary ..................................... 123 4.2. Commentary to the Critical Edition ................................................ 124 4.2.1. 920B-921D. The Stains and Irregularities on the Moon’s Surface 124 III 4.2.2. 921D-923E. The Moon’s Nature: Aether and Light or Air and Fire 135 4.2.3. 923E-928D. The Order of the Cosmos and the Moon’s Place in it 142 4.2.4. 928D-929B. The Moon’s Nature According to Aristotelianism . 162 4.2.5. 929B-931D. The Question of the Moon’s Illumination .............. 166 4.2.6. 931D-935D. The Question of the Moon’s Obscuration .............. 174 4.2.7. 935D-937C. Possible Refutations of the Academic Theory ........ 188 4.2.8. 937D-938C. Transition: Theon’s Four Arguments ...................... 191 4.2.9. 938C-940F. Transition: Lamprias’
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