Problem autentyczności Corpus Theognideum w świetle historii jego transmisji: manuskrypty i pierwsze edycje krytyczne
The Authenticity of the Corpus Theognideum throughout the History of its Transmission: Manuscripts and the First Printed Critical Editions

Summary/Abstract: Corpus Theognideum constitutes the largest anthology of poetry composed in the archaic or classical period as well as the only elegiac text that has been transmitted by medieval manuscripts. Nevertheless, the form in which we know this collection is provided an important basis for the discussion about its authenticity. The present article is the result of the examination of the problem both about the history of disputes concerning that subject, and about the reception of the Theognidean poems, traced in Byzantine, early modern and modern period. Special focus has been given to the manuscript tradition, e.g. the most ancient codex Paris suppl. gr. 388 and Vaticanus, gr. 915, which bears witness to the popularity of the Theognidean elegies in the Byzantine age. The very raising of the subject in the form presented above was inspired by Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic method: based on this methodological proposal, the author sought to understand the evidence of the past in the proper historical context and to revise some dogmatic interpretations of other researchers; in this manner the author notes that the transmission of Corpus Theognideum is not really a solid foundation on which to build an argument about the falseness of the whole collection.

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