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A Study of the Panathenaic Discourse of Aelius Aristides Against the Background of Literature and Cultural Conflict, with Text, Translation, and Commentary TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE NEW SERIES-VOLUME 58, PART 1 1968 THE CIVILIZING POWER A Study of the PanathenaicDiscourse of Aelius Aristides Against the Background of Literatureand Cultural Conflict, with Text, Translation,and Commentary JAMES H. OLIVER Professorof Classics, The Johns Hopkins University THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA January, 1968 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED by THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICALSOCIETY homini maxime homini T. R. S. BROUGHTON Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68-I5919 PRINTED IN GERMANY at J. J. AUGUSTIN, GLUCKSTADT PREFACE The translation was made and some of the com- Introduction, notes 2 and 3) and Professor Bayly mentary was composed in 1955-1956 when the Turlington of Sewanee have generously aided him writer enjoyed a year's leave of absence from the in regard to special problems. Professors Harry Johns Hopkins University and the assistance of a Bober and Paul A. Underwood kindly provided grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial photographs. To all these we express our gratitude. Foundation. It is a pleasure to acknowledge these Most of the research was carried out with the great debts, likewise the assistance from Dean G. resources of the Johns Hopkins UniversityLibrary, Heberton Evans, Jr., of the Johns Hopkins Univer- but the writer has worked also in three Florentine sity, who drew on a special fund to buy photostatic libraries, namely the Laurentian, the Nazionale and copies of the four manuscripts here collated. the Istituto di Papirologia, where he was received To his wife, who among other things criticized with the most exquisite courtesy. the translation and compiled the English index, the The essay of Chapter I contains an address deliv- writer is particularly indebted. She has encouraged ered by the writer on 6 April, I964, at the University him at every stage. Dr. Iginio Crisci of Florence (see of Coimbra. J. H. O. ABBREVIATIONS (See also list of manuscripts in Introduction) AHR. American Historical Review. GIBM. The Collectionof Ancient GreekInscriptions AJP. American Journal of Philology. in the British Museum, 4 v. London, I874-I916. Annee ep. Annee epigraphique,published annually GRBS. Greek,Roman, and Byzantine Studies, pub- as part of the Revue archeologique. lished at Duke University, Chapel Hill, North AP. AnthologiaPalatina. Carolina. BCH. Bulletin de CorrespondanceHellenique. Holleck. Coniectaneacritica in Aelii Aristidis Pana- Beecke. Die historischenAngaben in Aelius Aristides thenaicum,Diss. Vratislaviae, I874. Panathenaikosauf ihre Quellenuntersucht, Diss. HSCIP. HarvardStudies in Classical Philology. StraBburg, I905. IG. InscriptionesGraecae consilio et auctoritateAca- Bull. ep. Bulletin epigraphique,published annually demiae Litterarum Borussicae editae. Berlin, by J. and L. Robert as part of the Revue des I873-. etudesgrecques. IG II2, etc. Inscriptiones Graecae,volumen II-III, Carie. Robert, L. La Carie: histoire et geographie etc., editio minor. historique avec le recueil des inscriptions anti- JHS. 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Sitzungsberichte. Zeitschr. neutest. Wiss. Zeitschriftfir die neutesta- Sitzungsb. Heidelberg. Heidelberger Akademie der mentliche Wissenschaft ... THE CIVILIZING POWER A Study of the Panathenaic Discourse of Aelius Aristides against the Background of Literature and Cultural Conflict, with Text, Translation, and Commentary JAMESH. OLIVER CONTENTS that Thucydides and Plato are the best Attic authors it does not the charm of Demosthenes Introduction ................................... 5 deny Part I: General discussion ..................... 9 and Aristides.1 I: From funeral oration to Panathenaic 9 As late as I76I the names of Demosthenes and II: Traditional culture and ancestral con- Aristides were still coupled. In paying tribute to stitution .......................... i7 Willem Canter's Latin translation of the works of and III: AlWtheia Akribeia .............. 25 Aristides who knew the Attic orators IV: Date of composition and reaction to J. J. Reiske, eastern influence ................. 32 better than any other scholar of his day, wrote as V: Cosmic themes .................... 38 follows: Part II: Translation ........................... 45 Part III: Commentary on individual passages ...... 91 Obscurusfit interpres interdum, dum brevis esse Part IV: Text and apparatus .................... I5I laborat. Quod aliter fieri non poterat. Scriptorum Bibliography ................................... I95 graecorumquotquot legi, neque tamen perpaucoslegi, Index to the Greek text.......................... 196 qui quidemlibero dicendi genere usi sunt, post oratorem List of passages cited ............................ 214 Thucydidemunus Aristides,mea sententia,est omnium General index .................................. 219 intellectu difficillimus,cum propterincredibilem argu- mentationum et crebritatem et subtilitatem, tum proptergraecitatis exquisitam elegantiam. Ita enim est INTRODUCTION DemosthenemAristides ad verum et dexterrimeimita- In the eleventh after Michael tus, ut minutusDemosthenes appellari mereatur. Cedit century Christ, in Hadrianensis Paeaniensi Psellos made a remarkable effort to revive the ele- plerisque sophista oratori; sunt tamenrursus non pauca,in quibushunc ille superat. gance of Greek style, and in so doing he chose as the best models Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, and While to Photius and later to the Byzantines of Aristides. For him as for celebrated teachers of the the fourteenth century the Panathenaic and the Late Roman Empire Demosthenes and Aristides Oration on the Four in refutation of Plato were the formed a glorious pair. most interesting, Bruni and the Florentines of the At the beginning of the fourteenth century after fifteenth and sixteenth centuries esteemed the Christ, when Theodore Metochites and Nicephorus Panathenaic and the Roman Oration particularly. Choumnosdominated the literary life of Byzantium, One of the links between Byzantium and Florence Aelius Aristides still counted as one of the three or is an interest in Aristides among the educational four great ancients who could be used as rhetorical leaders. The first printing of Aristides and the first models. Gregory of Cyprus, who became patriarch Latin translation of a work of Aristides occurredat of Constantinople,and whose favorite authors were Florence, and at Venice under the cultural influence Plato, Demosthenes, and Aristides, had attacked of the Florentines the first and second Aldine edi- the moderns and suffered attack himself. In defend- tions of Isocrates carried also the Panathenaic and ing Gregory, who was his teacher, Nicephorus the Roman Oration of Aristides. Byzantium and Choumnos proposed organizing a contest between Florence still admired him as an artist, and he has the works of these three great ancients, whom he perhaps contributed a little to the canons of Italian easily understood, and the works of the moderns, style. whom he pretended to find quite unintelligible. For The modern student needs to be reminded of the Metochites (Logos 14, ch. 17) the great models were long period in which Aristides was one of the great Aristides, Demosthenes, and Plato. An anonymous models of artistic prose, but this essay of ours, which discourse of the early fourteenth century protests against a tendency to consider Demosthenes and 1 Ihor Sevcenko, Etudes sur la polemique entre Theodore Aristides the only stylistic models, but in asserting Metochite et Nicephore Choumnos (Brussels, I962). 5 6 OLIVER: THE CIVILIZING POWER [TRANS. AMER. PHIL.
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