- Title
- L'importance du Théétète avant Thrasylle
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- La mesure du savoir: Études sur le Théétète de Platon p. 243-266
- Relation
- Tradition de la pensee classique
- Relation
- http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782711624959
- Publisher
- J. Vrin
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Somewhere in the Hellenistic or Roman world, an unknown grammarian wrote notes on some language points identified in certain passages by Plato. The dialogues which concerned his writings are Euthydemus, Gorgias, Phaedo (which he knew under the title: On the Soul), Phaedra, Republic (in 6 books) and Theaetetus. It would seem that the grammarian had access to none of the later dialogues, because in the ensemble of 60 citations, none between them are mentioned even once, not even the most important and known dialogue of the era Timaeus. Republic, as divided into 6 books, is generally considered to encompass all of what we know today under the same name, even though certain words that the grammarian wrote in his Republic do not appear in ours, and he seems to have written others of the same kind in a part of the works, where they don’t appear in our text. In addition, in the space of only 40 quotes, he makes no reference to entire portions of Republic; no mention of the text is made between VII, 537 a and IX, 589 c, between V, 474 c and VI, 500 a or even still between I, 348 c and II, 379 d. It would equally seem that he has written in his Gorgias and his Phaedo some words which do not appear there anymore today; in the first case, no reference is made to the text between 455 a and 485 e, and we find some comparable omissions in the case of the second. It is difficult to not conclude that his editing of Plato was constituted of texts compiled before they attained their definitive form, and perhaps even before the writing of the most recent dialogues. The work of this grammarian was used for the development of an anonymous, lexicographic text, where the author is known under the name of Anti-atticist, a text which has still not been re-edited since the edition of 1814 that we find in Anecdota Graeca by Bekker, but which we can easily have access to via the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae under the title Lexica Segueriana.
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1345854
- Identifier
- uon:29733
- Identifier
- ISBN:9782711624959
- Language
- eng
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