title: An Interpolation Family in the Poetics
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metadata.value: Pozdnev, Michael M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T11:05:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T11:05:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Pozdnev M. M. An Interpolation Family in the Poetics. Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (2), 173–190.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23859
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metadata.value: The ms. tradition of the Poetics is a mine, quite unexpectedly, when it comes to composition
  on literary matters: four independent witnesses — Parisinus 1741 (A), Riccardianus 46 (B),
  and mediaeval translations into Latin by William of Moerbecke and Arabic by Abū-Bishr Mattā
  made with the help of a Syriac interlinear (not to mention the recentiores which still could
  prove of some stemmatic value, as for instance Par. gr. 2038, Vat. gr. 1400, Berol. Philipp. and
  Mon. 493) — allow in most cases for a safe reconstruction of an archetype. Common errors
  suggest that this text differed from the autograph in some twenty passages, largely interpolations,
  ranging from a couple of words to a number of phrases. Several intrusions prove to be
  typologically close. All of them correct what was deemed to be inaccurate or loose argumentation
  by inserting syntactic complements or references adding cohesion. As a result, both
  the style and context go largely neglected. The first paragraphs of ch. 6, central to the Poetics,
  suffered most. This text also came down to us in a Syriac translation having a heavily glossed
  uncial ms. as its source. Insertions in ch. 6 cause ‘harmonising’ additions to the following
  text of the treatise. The ‘family of interpolations’ under discussion is tentatively attributed
  to a professor of Aristotelianism of late antiquity (the most suitable candidate seems to be
  Themistius): a school-room copy diffused by his pupils became the common ancestor of both
  the extant Greek mss. of the Poetics and the reconstructed Greek sources of the mediaeval
  translations. A fresh collation of the Syriac text together with the evidence of variae lectiones
  in the oldest independent Greek mss. offer a glimpse into the workings of his mind.
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metadata.value: The work summarized in this paper is part of the project “Thesaurus criticus to Aristotle’s
  Poetics” supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project Nr. 18-18-0060).
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle’s Poetics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: manuscript evidence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mediaeval translations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: textual criticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: An Interpolation Family in the Poetics
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metadata.value: Article
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